alia

See also: Alia, alía, aliá, and -alia

Baba Malay

Etymology

From Malay halia.

Noun

alia

1. ginger

Further reading

• Baba Malay Dictionary

Catalan

Verb

alia

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

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

• nesama (“different”)

Derived terms

• aliaĵo (“something else”)
• alidirekte (“in another direction”)
• alie (“in another way, differently; otherwise”)
• aliflanke (“on the other hand”)
• alifoje (“another time”)
• aliformi (“to alter, transform”)
• aliformiĝi (“to be altered, transformed”)
• aliigi (“to change (transitive)”)
• aliiĝi (“to change (intransitive)”)
• alikonstrui (“to remodel”)
• alilanda (“foreign; offshore”)
• aliloke (“somewhere else”)
• alimaniere (“differently, in another way”)
• alinomo (“alias”)
• alio (“something else”)
• aliokaze (“otherwise”)
• aliopinia (“of a different opinion”)
• aliseksema (“heterosexual”)
• alispeca (“of a different kind”)
• alistrukturi (“to restructure, rearrange”)
• alitempe (“at other times”)
• aliulo (“someone else”)
• alivesti (“to disguise, dress up”)
• alivorte (“in other words”)
• interalie (“among other things”)
• kunalie (“with others”)
• unu la alian (“one another”)

 

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

• inter alia

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

From French allier.

Verb

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

1. to ally
2. to alloy

Conjugation

    conjugation of alia (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a alia
gerund			aliind
past participle			aliat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	aliez	aliezi	aliază	aliem	aliați	aliază
	imperfect	aliam	aliai	alia	aliam	aliați	aliau
	simple perfect	aliai	aliași	alie	aliarăm	aliarăți	aliară
	pluperfect	aliasem	aliaseși	aliase	aliaserăm	aliaserăți	aliaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să aliez	să aliezi	să alieze	să aliem	să aliați	să alieze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		aliază			aliați
	negative		nu alia			nu aliați