The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀλλοδαπός“foreign”
- English todayallodapic
From Ancient Greek ἀλλοδαπός (allodapós, “foreign”) + -ic, perhaps on the basis that the sediment originates elsewhere.
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allodapic
Today it means: deposited as a sediment from a turbid current Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἀλλοδαπός