external Copy link Outline 1. externus (being or coming from without)2. exter or extĕrus; with comp. extĕrior3. extrāneus (more freq. in sense of stranger4. very often expr. by extra, extrinsĕcus • external: 1. externus (being or coming from without): fortune, mistress of e. things, fortuna domina rerum ex., Cic.: Hor.: v. foreign. 2. exter or extĕrus; with comp. extĕrior: the e. parts of bodies, extera corporum, Plin. 22, 23, 49: Cic.: v. outer. 3. extrāneus (more freq. in sense of stranger: q. v.): e. things (i. e. which are not under our own control), res ex., Cic. Inv. 2, 59, 178. 4. very often expr. by extra, extrinsĕcus: to perceive (by the senses) e. objects, quae extra sunt percipere, Cic.: (to affirm that) there are certain bodily and e. goods, et in corpore et extra esse quaedam bona, Cic. Fin. 2, 21, 68: e. images effect an entrance to the soul by the body, imagines extrinsecus in animos nostros per corpora irrumpere, Cic. Acad. 2, 40, 125: e. objects, haec quae sunt extrinsecus, Cic.