i 1 n 1 d 2 i 1 g 2 e 1 n 1 o 1 u 1 s 1
10 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective originating where it is found
originBorrowed from Late Latin indigenus (“native, born in a country”), from indi- (indu-), an old derivative of in (“in”), gen- the root of gignō (“give birth to”), and English -ous. Compare indigene, Ancient Greek ἐνδογενής (endogenḗs, “born in the house”), and the separately formed piecewise doublet endogenous. Unrelated to Indian.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- diosgenin 11
- ingenious 10
- unionised 10
- dungeons 10
- indigens 10
- indigoes 10
- sounding 10
- undoings 10
- unsigned 10
- disunion 9
- enginous 9
- dingies 9