exotic

English

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Etymology

From Latin exoticus, from ἐξωτικός (eksotikos, “foreign”), literally "from the outside", from ἐξω- (ekso, “outside”), from ἐξ (eks, “out of”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɪɡˈzɒtɪk/, X-SAMPA: /Ig"zQtIk/
• (US) IPA: /ɪɡˈzɑtɪk/, X-SAMPA: /Ig"zAtIk/
• Rhymes: -ɒtɪk

Adjective

exotic (comparative more exotic, superlative most exotic)

1. 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

2. Non-native to the ecosystem.

Related terms

• exotica

Derived terms

• exotically
• exoticness
• exotic atom
• exotic baryon
• exotic cheroot
• exotic sphere

Translations

foreign, with the connotation of excitingly foreign

• Bulgarian: екзотичен (bg) (ekzotičen)
• Catalan: exòtic (ca)
• Czech: exotický (cs) m, cizokrajný (cs) m
• Esperanto: ekzotika (eo), ekzota (eo)
• Greek: εξωτικός (el) (eksotikós) m
• Hungarian: egzotikus (hu)
• Ido: exotika (io)
• Japanese: エキゾチック (ja) (ekizochikku)
• Korean: 이국적인 (ko) (igukjeogin), 이국풍의 (ko) (igukpungui)

• Persian: غریب (fa)
• Polish: egzotyczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: exótico (pt)
• Russian: экзоти́ческий (ru) (ekzotíčeskij), экзоти́чный (ru) (ekzotíčnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: coimheach (gd), eilthireach (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: egzòtičan (sh)
• Spanish: exótico (es)

non-native to the ecosystem

• Greek: εξωτικός (el) (eksotikós) m
• Japanese: 外来 (ja) (gairai)
• Korean: 외래의 (ko) (oeraeui), 외국산의 (ko) (oeguksanui)
• Portuguese: exótico (pt) m, exótica (pt) f

• Russian: экзоти́ческий (ru) (ekzotíčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: egzòtičan (sh)
• Spanish: exótico (es) m

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• Mandarin: 異乎尋常 (cmn), 异乎寻常 (cmn)
• Dutch: exotisch (nl), exotische (nl)
• French: exotique (fr) m and f
• German: exotisch (de)
• Greek: εξωτικός (el) (exotikós)
• Hungarian: egzotikus (hu)
• Italian: esotico (it) m

• Romanian: exotic (ro)
• Swedish: exotisk (sv)
• Slovene: eksotičen (sl)

Noun

exotic (plural exotics)

1. (biology) An organism that is exotic to an environment.
2. An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
3. (physics) Any exotic particle.

   Glueballs, theoretical particles composed only of gluons, are exotics.

Derived terms

• invasive exotic

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Romanian

Adjective

exotic ^{4 nom/acc forms}

1. exotic

Declension

declension of exotic

		singular			plural
		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