indigenous

Meaning

Adjective

Origin

  • Borrowed from Late Latin indigenus ("native, born in a country"), from indi- (indu-), an old derivative of in, gen- the root of gignō, and English . Compare indigene, Ancient Greek ἐνδογενής, and the separately formed endogenous.

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