exotic
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin exoticus, from ἐξωτικός (eksotikos, “foreign”), literally "from the outside", from ἐξω- (ekso, “outside”), from ἐξ (eks, “out of”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
exotic (comparative more exotic, superlative most exotic)
- Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
- Evelyn
- Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, The Tremarn Case[1]:
- “Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”
- exotic appearance
- Evelyn
- Non-native to the ecosystem.
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Translations [edit]
foreign, with the connotation of excitingly foreign
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non-native to the ecosystem
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Noun [edit]
exotic (plural exotics)
- (biology) An organism that is exotic to an environment.
- An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
- (physics) Any exotic particle.
- Glueballs, theoretical particles composed only of gluons, are exotics.
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Romanian [edit]
Adjective [edit]
exotic 4 nom/acc forms
Declension [edit]
declension of exotic
| singular | plural | ||||||
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| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | exotic | exotică | exotici | exotice | ||
| definite | exoticul | exotica | exoticii | exoticele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | exotic | exotice | exotici | exotice | ||
| definite | exoticului | exoticei | exoticilor | exoticelor | |||