indigene

From Middle French indigène, from Latin indigena.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪndɪdʒiːn/

indigene (comparative more indigene, superlative most indigene)

1. (obsolete) Indigenous.

indigene (plural indigenes)

1. An indigenous person; a native.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 250:

     While Manuel sat skinning his birds of an afternoon, generally surrounded by a little crowd of Malays and Sassaks (as the indigenes of Lombock are termed), he often held forth to them with the air of a teacher, and was listened to with profound attention.

   • 2005 April 10, Christopher Hitchens, “André Malraux: One Man's Fate”, in New York Times Book Review:

     The price for all this chutzpah was that Malraux then had to take up the cause of the colonial indigenes as if it really mattered to him.

• IPA^(key): /inˈdi.d͡ʒe.ne/
• Rhymes: -idʒene
• Hyphenation: in‧dì‧ge‧ne

indigene

1. feminine plural of indigeno

indigene f

1. plural of indigena

indigene

1. vocative masculine singular of indigenus