indigena

indigena (plural indigenae)

1. A native, local, indigenous inhabitant, aboriginal.

• indigenous

• indigane

• IPA^(key): /inˈdi.d͡ʒe.na/
• Rhymes: -idʒena
• Hyphenation: in‧dì‧ge‧na

indigena

1. feminine singular of indigeno

indigena f (plural indigene)

1. female equivalent of indigeno

• indagine

• indigena: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪnˈdɪ.ɡɛ.na]
• indigena: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̪ˈd̪iː.d͡ʒe.na]
• indigenā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪnˈdɪ.ɡɛ.naː]
• indigenā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̪ˈd̪iː.d͡ʒe.na]

Equivalent to indu- (“inside”) +‎ -gena (“born”), from a strengthened form of in- (“into”) + variant of gignō (“I beget”).

indigena (genitive indigenae); first-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms)

1. native, indigenous
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.72.2:

     Divi Augusti iudiciorum ac palati peritissimum e libertis censuram vini in epulas eius facientem dixisse hospiti de indigena vino, novum quidem sibi gustum esse eum atque non ex nobilibus, sed Caesarem non aliud poturum.

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   • c. 417 CE, Rutilius Claudius Namatianus, De reditu suo 2.65:

     Indigenis superat ridentia lilia saxis, / Et levi radiat picta nitore silex.

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   • 1828, Symbolæ physicæ: seu Icones et descriptiones..., page 23:

     Quid, quod Seetzen, itineribus ante hos viginti annos per Syriam et Palaestinam factis doctisque observationibus iure celebris, vocem, qua Arabes ursum designant, in illis provinciis animali indigenae alicui tribui inter recentiores solus, quod sciam, retulit.

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First-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms).

indigena m (genitive indigenae); first declension

1. native

• → Catalan: indígena
• → French: indigène
  • → English: indigene
• → Sicilian: nnìggina

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

indigena

1. inflection of indigenus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

indigenā

1. ablative feminine singular of indigenus

indigena m (feminine singular indigena, masculine plural indigenas, feminine plural indigenas)

1. alternative spelling of indigèna (“indigenous”)

From indigen.

a indigena (third-person singular present indigenează, past participle indigenat) 1st conjugation

1. to indigenize

• indigena in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN