exogamy

English

Etymology

From exo- ‎ -gamy. Coined by British lawyer and ethnologist John Ferguson McLennan in his Studies in Ancient History, page 25.

Noun

exogamy (countable and uncountable, plural exogamies)

1. marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than one's own as required by custom or law

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intermarriage

   Antonyms: endogamy; see also Thesaurus:intermarriage

2. (biology) the fusion of two unrelated gametes

   Antonym: endogamy

Related terms

• exogamous

Translations

marriage

• Armenian: էկզոգամիա (hy) (ēkzogamia), տարամուսնություն (hy) (taramusnutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: екзогамия (bg) f (ekzogamija)
• Catalan: exogàmia f
• Czech: exogamie f
• Danish: exogami c
• Dutch: exogamie (nl) f
• Finnish: eksogamia (fi)
• French: exogamie (fr) f
• German: Exogamie (de) f
• Greek: εξωγαμία (el) f (exogamía)
• Hungarian: exogámia (hu)
• Italian: esogamia (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: exogami m

• Persian: برون‌همسری
• Polish: egzogamia f
• Portuguese: exogamia (pt) f
• Romanian: exogamie (ro) f
• Russian: экзога́мия (ru) f (ekzogámija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: егзога̀мија f

  Roman: egzogàmija (sh) f

• Spanish: exogamia f
• Swedish: exogami c
• Turkish: ekzogami
• Ukrainian: екзогамія f (ekzohamija)

See also

• intermarriage