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]
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  • 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.

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

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, 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 conj.

  1. to ally
  2. to alloy

Conjugation

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