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alia

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See also: Alia, alía, aliá, and -alia

Baba Malay

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Etymology

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From Malay halia.

Noun

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alia

  1. ginger

Further reading

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Catalan

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Verb

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alia

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

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From Latin alia.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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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

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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

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Derived terms

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Latin

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Noun

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ālia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ālium

Adjective

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alia

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

Adjective

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aliā

  1. feminine ablative singular of alius

Derived terms

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References

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  • 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

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Verb

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alia

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

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French allier.

Verb

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

  1. to ally
  2. to alloy

Conjugation

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