Maltese is the only autochthonous Semitic language in Europe. It is one of the official languages of the European Union.
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Autochthonous
/ɔˈtɑkθənəs/
Synonyms for "autochthonous" (85 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (26)
Adjective(5 words)
Noun(1 words)
indigenous law
Related words (42)
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More general
2 entriesgeographic descriptorgeological descriptor
More specific
4 entriesautochthonous populationautochthonous rockautochthonous sedimentautochthonous species
Collocations
6 entriesautochthonous cultureautochthonous plantautochthonous populationautochthonous regionautochthonous rockautochthonous species
Inflections
2 entriesmore autochthonousmost autochthonous
Derivations
3 entriesAntonyms
1 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
8 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- автохто́нен adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 原地埋藏的 adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
Finnish
1 entries- autoktoninen adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
Georgian
1 entries- ავტოქტონური adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
Irish
1 entries- díleasach adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
Polish
1 entries- autochtoniczny adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
Portuguese
1 entries- autóctone adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
Russian
1 entries- автохто́нный adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Two of the most celebrated of the evolutionists reject the autochthonous view, for Darwin's Descent of Man and Haeckel's Hist. of Creation consider the American man an emigrant from the old world, whatever way the race may have developed
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"Forms or images of a collective nature which occur practically all over the earth as constituents of myths and at the same time as autochthonous, individual products of unconscious origin" (C. G. Jung, Psychology and Religion [Collected Works, vol. 11; New York and London, 1958], par. 88.)
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Only human beings could live on this world and know that they were not autochthonous but had stemmed from Earthmen—and yet did the Spacers really know it or did they simply put it out of their mind?
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