estraneo
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin extrāneus (“external, foreign; strange”), whence also Italian strano (an inherited doublet).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]estraneo (feminine estranea, masculine plural estranei, feminine plural estranee) (a)
- extraneous or foreign (to)
- Synonyms: alieno, sconosciuto, straniero, forestiero, avulso
- Antonyms: familiare, casalingo
- una persona estranea al nostro paese
- a person foreign to our country
- unrelated (to), unconnected (with)
- Antonyms: pertinente, inerente, attinente
- estraneo all'argomento ― unrelated to the topic
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]estraneo m (plural estranei, feminine estranea)
- outsider, stranger
- Synonyms: sconosciuto, forestiero
- Antonyms: familiare, consanguineo, intimo
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- estraneo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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