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" (81 found)
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Strong matches (24)
Related words (40)
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Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesderived
6 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesrelated to
13 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
53 translations across 25 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- autokton adj (native to the place where found)
- autoktone adj (native to the place where found)
Bulgarian
3 entries- автохто́нен adj (native to the place where found)
- автохто́нен adj (biology, medicine: originating where found)
- автохто́нен adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
Catalan
1 entries- autòcton adj (native to the place where found)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 原位的 adj (biology, medicine: originating where found)
- 原地埋藏的 adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
- 土生的 adj (native to the place where found)
- 本土的 adj (native to the place where found)
Czech
1 entries- autochtonní adj (native to the place where found)
Dutch
1 entries- autochtoon adj (native to the place where found)
Esperanto
3 entries- aŭtoktona adj (native to the place where found)
- aŭtoĥtona adj (native to the place where found)
- indiĝena adj (native to the place where found)
Finnish
4 entries- autoktoninen adj (native to the place where found)
- autoktoninen adj (biology, medicine: originating where found)
- autoktoninen adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
- kotoperäinen adj (native to the place where found)
French
1 entries- autochtone adj (native to the place where found)
Galician
1 entries- autóctono adj (native to the place where found)
Georgian
4 entries- ადგილობრივი adj (native to the place where found)
- ავტოქტონური adj (native to the place where found)
- ავტოქტონური adj (biology, medicine: originating where found)
- ავტოქტონური adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
German
1 entries- autochthon adj (native to the place where found)
Greek
1 entries- αυτόχθονας adj (native to the place where found)
Irish
3 entries- díleasach adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
- uatheascarthach adj (native to the place where found)
- uatheascarthach adj (biology, medicine: originating where found)
Italian
1 entries- autoctono adj (native to the place where found)
Kazakh
1 entries- автохтондық adj (native to the place where found)
Polish
4 entries- autochtoniczny adj (native to the place where found)
- autochtoniczny adj (biology, medicine: originating where found)
- autochtoniczny adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
- autochtoński adj (native to the place where found)
Portuguese
3 entries- autóctone adj (native to the place where found)
- autóctone adj (biology, medicine: originating where found)
- autóctone adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
Romanian
1 entries- autohton adj (native to the place where found)
Russian
4 entries- автохто́нный adj (native to the place where found)
- автохто́нный adj (biology, medicine: originating where found)
- автохто́нный adj (geology: formed or buried where found)
- аутохто́нный adj (native to the place where found)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- autòhton adj (native to the place where found)
Spanish
1 entries- autóctono adj (native to the place where found)
Swedish
3 entries- autokton adj (native to the place where found)
- infödd adj (native to the place where found)
- ursprunglig adj (native to the place where found)
Turkish
1 entries- asil yerli adj (native to the place where found)
Ukrainian
1 entries- автохто́нний adj (native to the place 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
Source: wiktionary
"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.)
Source: wiktionary
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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