Dictionary

enchorial en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ɛnˈkɔː.ɹɪ.əl/ (UK)
• /ɛnˈkoɹ.i.əl/ (US)
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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐγχώριος (enkhṓrios, “rural, in or of the country”), from χώρα (khṓra, “country”).

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Indigenous, native.
   • Well, the right name, Ouigoudi, if it had been continued as the name of the settlement, would be styled an enchorial name. St. John is an imported name, having been taken from the river to which the name was given by deMonts and Champlain in 1604 because they discovered it on St. John the Baptist's Day[…] 1900, George Johnson, “Place-Names”, in George Upham Hay, editor, Canadian History Readings, volume 1, page 89:
2. (archaic, not-comparable) Of, relating to, or written in the Egyptian Demotic script or language.
   • The inscription of the Rosetta Stone is written in hieroglyphics and in enchorial letters, with a Greek translation. 1872, Philip Smith, A Smaller Ancient History of the East, page 130:

Synonyms

demotic · indigenous · enchoric · native · autochthonous · Demotic

Translations (3)

pt autóctone (indigenous, native) · pt nativo (indigenous, native) · fi kansanomainen (indigenous, native)