Etymology

terrigenous

T1E1R1R1I1G2E1N1O1U1S1

Today it means: Produced by the earth. Full definition →

Latin terrigena
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromterrigena“land-born”
  2. English todayterrigenous

Latin terrigena (“land-born”) + -ous

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.