strange meaning
strange (adj.) late 13c., from elsewhere, foreign, unknown, unfamiliar, from Old French estrange foreign, alien, unusual, unfamiliar, curious; distant; inhospitable; estranged, separated (Modern French Ã©trange), from Latin extraneus foreign, external, from without (source also of Italian strano strange, foreign, Spanish extraÃ±o), from extra outside of (see extra-).