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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Thanks for the clarification! Is 'aliens' the same word in Portuguese or did the artist use an English word or was this a translation?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think it's a loan word. The root "alien" exists in words like *alienado* (alienated) or *alienação* (alienation), but as a single word alien/aliens I think comes from English.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

My memory failed for a bit, as another commenter said, the actual word for alien in Portuguese is *alienígena*, but nowadays many shorten it to alien (likely due to English influence)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

A bit of a correction, alien has its roots in Latin, alius (other) -> alienus (belonging to other), which spread over the places the Romans conquered. Since it's Latin, it's also the why most legal documents love using "alienate" when it comes to transferring ownership of stuff

No idea when alien started to be used to refer to extraterrestrials.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Could be "alienígena", but we use "alien" too. It's shorter