indigene

Definitions


[ˈɪndɪdʒiːn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person who is native to a particular place, in particular a member of an Indigenous people
(e.g: the indigenes not only had no political rights, but they had no rights of any kind)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century (as indigena): partly via French indigène, from Latin indigena, from indi- (strengthened form of in- ‘into’) + an element related to gignere ‘beget’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries