heterochthonous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not indigenous; foreign.
Example Sentences
- "In the view of Johnson and Baldwin, the only sovereignty over Indians having any legal significance was the sovereignty imposed from without – the heterochthonous sovereignty of the United States and the individual states."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros, “other, different”) (corresponding to hetero-) + χθών (khthṓn, “earth, soil”) + -ous.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ἕτερος
Inflected Forms
more heterochthonous (comparative)
most heterochthonous (superlative)