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exopolitics
Exopolitics comes from Ancient Greek; the Ancient Greek form is not named.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEform not named
- Englishearliest quotation 1996exopolitics
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEform not named
- Englishearliest quotation 1996exopolitics
Earliest quotation: 1996, Coyote: “McGill University -- Kirk's Alma Mater and home of…”
Formed from exo- ‘outside’ + politics
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out of’
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ ‘Out of, from’
Ancient Greek ἔξω ‘outer’
English exo-
The story
Constructed from Ancient Greek: exo- (‘outside; extrasolar’) + politics.
Today it means
noun The art or science of government as concerned with creating or influencing policy toward extraterrestrial phenomena and extraterrestrial beings.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / exopolitics