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- Ancient Greek · derived fromἄλλος“different”
- English todayallopatry
From Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “different”) + πᾰτρῐ́ς (pătrĭ́s, “fatherland”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἄλλος all →
allergyallosaurusallochthonousallochlorophyllallocrineallodoxaphobiaallophylicalloscutumallostasisallotrope
First known use, by meaning
- from 1942 The condition of being allopatric.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.