FOREIGN Copy link • FOREIGNperegrinus (from peregre; that comes from a foreign country, and PROP. belongs to it, whether his residence amongst us is for a long or short time): exterus: externus (what is not contained within the limits of our country; externus simply denoting that fact, and so being merely local; whereas exterus denotes that the object in question is therefore alien to us: thus exterae gentes or nationes is a political expression for foreign nations; opposed to nos, and socii nostri, etc.: externae gentes, etc., are foreign nations considered geographically only. Externus may be applied to things as well as persons; not so exterus. ☞ Extraneus in the best prose denotes “not belonging to our family;” in the Silver Age, it obtained the meaning of not belonging to the state, considered as a greater family: exoticus is unclassic; extrarius denotes what does not belong to myself): adventicius (that comes or is brought to us from a foreign country, as birds, etc.; opposed to vernaculus; also, adventicius auxilium, “foreign aid;” opposed to that afforded us by members of our own family, Cic.): advecticius (imported from a foreign country, vinum, wine; Sall., Jug., 44, 5): importatus (imported): barbarus (not Roman, especially with reference to language, customs, etc.). Foreign manners, customs, barbarum (to βάρβαρον, Tac., Ann., 6, 42, 1): excessive predilection for what is foreign, peregrinitas (Cic., ad Fam., 9, 15, 5): foreign pronunciation, dialect, peregrinitas (Quint., 11, 3, 30): leave off everything foreign, peregrina omnia relinque: a foreign language, sermo externus, lingua peregrina: to learn to speak in a foreign language, peregrinam linguam discere: a foreign word, verbum externum, peregrinum, especially verbum peregrinum et externum: foreign customs, manners, mores externi: to adopt foreign customs or manners, moribus externis se oblinere (said reproachfully): our country that is not subject to a foreign power, patria soluta ab omni externo imperio: foreign aid, externa auxilia, adventiciae copiae (Cic.): foreign countries, terrae externae, loca externa (noun plur.); terrae longinquiores or remotiores (of distant countries): to visit a foreign country, to travel in a foreign country, peregre abire or proficisci: to fly to a foreign country, solum vertere or mutare (a gentler expression for in exsilium confugere, to go into exile; hence, also, with the addition exsilii causa): to be received in a foreign country, recipi in exsilium (of an exile; explained by Cic., himself, pro Coec., 34, extr., in aliam civitatem recipi): to dwell in a foreign country, peregre habitare: to stay in a foreign country, peregrinari: to return from a foreign country, peregre redire: to call anybody from a foreign country to the throne, aliquem peregre accire in regnum: all that is foreign, peregrina omnia (e.g., relinque): a foreign yoke, externum imperium, or (with reference to the subjects, servttus, utis. To deliver from a foreign yoke, externo imperio solvere; servitute liberare. Irrelevant, etc.; Vid: ALIEN.