exter

Dutch

Noun

exter m (plural exters, diminutive extertje n)

1. Obsolete form of ekster.

Latin

Alternative forms

• exterus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *eksteros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros, from *h₁eǵʰs (whence ex); equivalent to ex (“out of, from within”) +‎ -ter (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈek.ster/, [ˈɛks̠t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈek.ster/, [ˈɛkst̪er]

Adjective

exter (feminine extera, neuter exterum, comparative exterior, superlative extrēmus or extimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. on the outside, outward, external, outer, far, remote

   Synonyms: adventīcius, aliēnus, barbaricus, barbarus, exōticus, extrāneus, peregrīnus, prosēlytus

2. of another country; foreign, strange

   Synonym: extrārius

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.350:

     “[...] Et nōs fās extera quaerere rēgna.”

     “[It is] right for us, too, to seek a foreign realm.”
     (The context can be understood as someplace “external to” or “far from” one’s homeland as well as “foreign” or “strange”.)

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	exter	extera	exterum		exterī	exterae	extera
Genitive	exterī	exterae	exterī		exterōrum	exterārum	exterōrum
Dative	exterō		exterō		exterīs
Accusative	exterum	exteram	exterum		exterōs	exterās	extera
Ablative	exterō	exterā	exterō		exterīs
Vocative	exter	extera	exterum		exterī	exterae	extera

Derived terms

• exterius
• externus
• extrā

Descendants

Descendants of exter in other languages

• Italian: estero
• Ladin: ester
• Piedmontese: éster

References

• “exter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Luxembourgish

Verb

exter

1. second-person singular imperative of exteren