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adventitious

The origin and history of adventitious.

Etymology

Comes from Medieval Latin adventītius (“coming from abroad, extraneous”), a corruption of Latin adventīcius (“foreign, strange, accidental”), which came from adventus (“arrival, coming, approach, advent”) plus -īcius (adjective-forming suffix), itself from adveniō (“to arrive”) plus -tus (suffix forming action nouns).

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