alia

See also: Alia, alía, aliá, and -alia

Baba Malay

Etymology

From Malay halia.

Noun

alia

  1. ginger

Further reading

Catalan

Verb

alia

  1. inflection of aliar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin alia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈlia/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: a‧li‧a

Adjective

alia (accusative singular alian, plural aliaj, accusative plural aliajn)

  1. other, another
    • 1915, L. L. Zamenhof (translator), Malnova Testamento, Genezo 25:1.
      Kaj Abraham prenis alian edzinon, kiu estis nomata Ketura.
      And Abraham took another wife, who was named Ketura.
    • 2012, Plato, translated by Donald Broadribb, La Respubliko (Traduko al Esperanto) [The Republic (Translation into Esperanto)], 2nd corrected edition (paperback), New York: Mondial, →ISBN, page 17:
      Post nelonge Polemarĥo atingis nin. Akompanis lin Adejmanto, [] kaj diversaj aliaj personoj kiuj revenis de la procesio.
      Polemarchus reached us not long after. Accompanying him were Adeimantus, [] and several other people who returned from the procession.
      (literally, “After not long Polemarchus reached us. Accompanied him Adeimantus, [] and several other people who returned from the procession.”)

Usage notes

In negative expressions, alia may be followed either by ol or krom:

Li prizorgas neniun alian, ol sin mem/krom si mem.He looks after no one other than/apart from himself.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Latin

Noun

ālia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ālium

Adjective

alia

  1. inflection of alius:
    1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
    2. neuter nominative/accusative/nominative plural

Adjective

aliā

  1. feminine ablative singular of alius

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • alia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "alia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • alia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) the case is exactly similar (entirely different): eadem (longe alia) est huius rei ratio
    • (ambiguous) systematic succession, concatenation: continuatio seriesque rerum, ut alia ex alia nexa et omnes inter se aptae colligataeque sint (N. D. 1. 4. 9)

Portuguese

Verb

alia

  1. inflection of aliar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French allier.

Verb

a alia (third-person singular present aliază, past participle aliat) 1st conjugation

  1. to ally
  2. to alloy

Conjugation