| 1 | English | exotic | Foreign, especially in an exciting way;... |
| 2 | Middle French | exotique | — |
| 3 | Latin | exōticus | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | ἐξωτικός | foreign, outlying, alien; uninitiated |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ἔξω | out, out of; outside; without, except |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | σφαῖρα | ball, globe, sphere |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ειδής | like, connected to, from the nature of, full of;... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -ής | adjective suffix |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -ēs | Primarily forms adjectival bahuvrīhi compounds |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -ess | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |