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) IPA^(key): /inˈdi.ɡe.na/, [ɪn̪ˈd̪ɪɡɛnä]
• indigena: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈdi.d͡ʒe.na/, [in̪ˈd̪iːd͡ʒenä]
• indigenā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈdi.ɡe.naː/, [ɪn̪ˈd̪ɪɡɛnäː]
• indigenā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈdi.d͡ʒe.na/, [in̪ˈd̪iːd͡ʒenä]

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

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

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

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

indigena m (genitive indigenae); first declension

1. a 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”)