adventitious
ad·ven·ti·tious
adjective
1.
associated by chance and not an integral part
- “poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form” Frederick W. Robertson
- “they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character”
Origin
From Medieval Latin adventītius (“coming from abroad, extraneous”), a corruption of Latin adventīcius (“foreign, strange, accidental”), from adventus (“arrival, coming, approach, advent”) + -īcius (suffix forming adjectives), from adveniō (“to arrive”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns).
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