alias

See also: Alias, aliás, and alías

English

Etymology

From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.li.əs/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪliəs

Adverb

alias (not comparable)

1. Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called; also known as; formerly known as.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 168:

     Hitherto the commanding influence of Sir Robert Evelyn's character had sunk his own into insignificance—now he had no "rival near the throne," alias the bench of county magistrates.

   • 1845, Clergymen of the Church of England, editors, The Christian’s Monthly Magazine and Church of England Review, volume IV, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., pages 364–365:

     When indeed a Popish monarch may fill our throne, and the successor of St. Peter shall be the spiritual head of our Church; then shall your “esoterics,” alias “Church principles,” be in the ascendant in our Universities, and Who shall say that we may not have a Thorp lecturer in each of our Colleges, Neale and Webb scholarships, Regii professores supplying the places of those who shall now be superannuated, all teaching, and empowered to confer degrees in the, symbolism of mystical divinity:—the professor of music, not dealing as he now must, with crotchets and quavers, but in the far higher branches of the sacramentality of sounds, with their correspondent colours, instruments, bearing, &c. &c., and so of others?

2. (law) Used to connect the different names of a person who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful

   Smith, alias Simpson.

Synonyms

• AKA

Coordinate terms

• FKA, PKA

Translations

adverb

• French: alias (fr)
• Hungarian: alias (hu)
• Polish: alias (pl)
• Swedish: alias (sv)

Noun

alias (plural aliases)

1. Another name; especially, an assumed name.

   Synonyms: (another name) synonym, poecilonym (rare), (assumed name) pseudonym

   Hyponyms: pen name, nom de plume; nom de guerre; nom de clavier, nom de Web, nom de voyage

2. (law) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
3. (computing) An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
4. (signal processing) An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.

Synonyms

• (another name): pseudonym

Derived terms

• aliasable
• alias summons
• antialias
• unalias

Translations

another name; an assumed name

• Azerbaijani: ləqəb
• Bashkir: ҡушамат (quşamat)
• Basque: ezizen (eu), goitizen (eu)
• Belarusian: псеўдані́м m (psjeŭdaním), мяну́шка f (mjanúška), клі́чка f (klíčka)
• Bulgarian: псевдони́м (bg) m (psevdoním), про́звище (bg) n (prózvište)
• Catalan: àlies (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 別名 / 别名 (zh) (biémíng), 化名 (zh) (huàmíng)

• Esperanto: alinomo
• Finnish: alias (fi)
• French: pseudonyme (fr) m
• German: Pseudonym (de) n, Deckname (de) m
• Greek: ψευδώνυμο (el) n (psevdónymo)
• Ido: pseudonimo (io), alias (io)
• Indonesian: alias (id)
• Irish: ainm bréige m, ailias (computing)
• Japanese: 仮名 (ja) (かめい, kamei), 偽名 (ja) (ぎめい, gimei), 異名 (ja) (いみょう, imyō), 雅号 (ja) (がごう, gagō), 別名 (ja) (べつめい, betsumei) (about references in programming)
• Korean: 가명(假名) (ko) (gamyeong)
• Lithuanian: slapyvardis m, pseudonimas m
• Middle English: surname, surnoun
• Odia: ଓରଫ୍ (oraph)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: نامِ مُسْتَعار (nâm-e mosta'âr)

• Polish: alias (pl) m
• Portuguese: pseudónimo (pt) m (Portugal), pseudônimo (pt) m (Brazil), cognome (pt) m
• Russian: псевдони́м (ru) m (psevdoním), про́звище (ru) n (prózvišče), кли́чка (ru) f (klíčka), вы́мышленное и́мя n (výmyšlennoje ímja)
• Spanish: alias (es) m, seudónimo (es) m, sobrenombre (es) m, apodo (es) m
• Swahili: jina bandia (sw)
• Swedish: alias (sv) n, pseudonym (sv) c, öknamn (sv) n, tillnamn (sv) n
• Ukrainian: псевдоні́м m (psevdoním), прі́звисько n (prízvysʹko), кли́чка f (klýčka)
• Welsh: enw arall m, alias (cy) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} pseudonyme (fr) m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} pseudonimo (it) m
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} pseudonim (ro) n

abbreviation that replaces a string of commands (computing)

• Esperanto: kromnomo
• Spanish: alias (es) m
• Swedish: alias (sv) n

Verb

alias (third-person singular simple present aliases, present participle aliasing, simple past and past participle aliased)

1. (computing) To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
2. (signal processing, of two signals, ambitransitive) To make or become indistinguishable.
   • 1989, Ken C. Pohlmann, The compact disc: a handbook of theory and use, page 22:

     When the signal frequency reaches half the sampling frequency, there are only two samples per cycle, which is the absolute minimum needed to record a waveform. A higher frequency would cause the digitization system to alias.

   • 1999, Carlo Bartolozzi with Riccardo Lencioni, Liver malignancies: diagnostic and interventional radiology, page 59:

     Finally, as it is a frequency detection technique, color Doppler US has the potential to alias

   • 2005, James Bao-yen Tsui, Fundamentals of global positioning system receivers, page 106:

     This technique can be used to alias the L1 and L2 bands of the GPS into the baseband

Translations

to assign an additional name to an entity

• Esperanto: sinonimi, alinomi, kromnomi
• Finnish: aliasoida
• Swedish: aliasa

See also

• Origin of signal processing usage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “alias”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “alias”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Alais, asail

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin alias.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑliɑs/, [ˈɑ̝liɑ̝s̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑliɑs
• Syllabification^(key): a‧li‧as
• Hyphenation^(key): ali‧as

Interjection

alias

1. alias, AKA (used to introduce an alternative name)

   Synonyms: see eli

   • 2020 September 22, Raila Kinnunen, “70 vuotta Kirkan syntymästä: 'Poismennyttä ihmistä voi ajatella ilolla – Lähtijällä on nyt hyvä olla, hänellä ei ole hätää, ei kipua eikä tuskaa'”, in Apu‎^[1]:

     Hautakiviä kaatui ja ihmiset talloivat hautoja. Kirill ja pikkuveli Georgij alias Ykä päättivät, että sama ei tapahdu enää ikinä.

     Headstones fell and people trampled on the graves. Kirill and his little brother Georgij alias Ykä decided that such a thing would never happen again.

Noun

alias

1. alias

Declension

Inflection of alias (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		alias	aliakset
genitive		aliaksen	aliasten aliaksien
partitive		aliasta	aliaksia
illative		aliakseen	aliaksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		alias	aliakset
accusative	nom.	alias	aliakset
	gen.	aliaksen
genitive		aliaksen	aliasten aliaksien
partitive		aliasta	aliaksia
inessive		aliaksessa	aliaksissa
elative		aliaksesta	aliaksista
illative		aliakseen	aliaksiin
adessive		aliaksella	aliaksilla
ablative		aliakselta	aliaksilta
allative		aliakselle	aliaksille
essive		aliaksena	aliaksina
translative		aliakseksi	aliaksiksi
abessive		aliaksetta	aliaksitta
instructive		—	aliaksin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of alias (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative aliakseni aliakseni accusative nom. aliakseni aliakseni gen. aliakseni genitive aliakseni aliasteni aliaksieni partitive aliastani aliaksiani inessive aliaksessani aliaksissani elative aliaksestani aliaksistani illative aliakseeni aliaksiini adessive aliaksellani aliaksillani ablative aliakseltani aliaksiltani allative aliakselleni aliaksilleni essive aliaksenani aliaksinani translative aliaksekseni aliaksikseni abessive aliaksettani aliaksittani instructive — — comitative — aliaksineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative aliaksesi aliaksesi accusative nom. aliaksesi aliaksesi gen. aliaksesi genitive aliaksesi aliastesi aliaksiesi partitive aliastasi aliaksiasi inessive aliaksessasi aliaksissasi elative aliaksestasi aliaksistasi illative aliakseesi aliaksiisi adessive aliaksellasi aliaksillasi ablative aliakseltasi aliaksiltasi allative aliaksellesi aliaksillesi essive aliaksenasi aliaksinasi translative aliakseksesi aliaksiksesi abessive aliaksettasi aliaksittasi instructive — — comitative — aliaksinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative aliaksemme aliaksemme accusative nom. aliaksemme aliaksemme gen. aliaksemme genitive aliaksemme aliastemme aliaksiemme partitive aliastamme aliaksiamme inessive aliaksessamme aliaksissamme elative aliaksestamme aliaksistamme illative aliakseemme aliaksiimme adessive aliaksellamme aliaksillamme ablative aliakseltamme aliaksiltamme allative aliaksellemme aliaksillemme essive aliaksenamme aliaksinamme translative aliakseksemme aliaksiksemme abessive aliaksettamme aliaksittamme instructive — — comitative — aliaksinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative aliaksenne aliaksenne accusative nom. aliaksenne aliaksenne gen. aliaksenne genitive aliaksenne aliastenne aliaksienne partitive aliastanne aliaksianne inessive aliaksessanne aliaksissanne elative aliaksestanne aliaksistanne illative aliakseenne aliaksiinne adessive aliaksellanne aliaksillanne ablative aliakseltanne aliaksiltanne allative aliaksellenne aliaksillenne essive aliaksenanne aliaksinanne translative aliakseksenne aliaksiksenne abessive aliaksettanne aliaksittanne instructive — — comitative — aliaksinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative aliaksensa aliaksensa accusative nom. aliaksensa aliaksensa gen. aliaksensa genitive aliaksensa aliastensa aliaksiensa partitive aliastaan aliastansa aliaksiaan aliaksiansa inessive aliaksessaan aliaksessansa aliaksissaan aliaksissansa elative aliaksestaan aliaksestansa aliaksistaan aliaksistansa illative aliakseensa aliaksiinsa adessive aliaksellaan aliaksellansa aliaksillaan aliaksillansa ablative aliakseltaan aliakseltansa aliaksiltaan aliaksiltansa allative aliakselleen aliaksellensa aliaksilleen aliaksillensa essive aliaksenaan aliaksenansa aliaksinaan aliaksinansa translative aliaksekseen aliakseksensa aliaksikseen aliaksiksensa abessive aliaksettaan aliaksettansa aliaksittaan aliaksittansa instructive — — comitative — aliaksineen aliaksinensa

Derived terms

• aliasoida

Further reading

• “alias”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Anagrams

• Alisa, Saila, laasi, lasia, saali, salia, silaa

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aliās (“at another time; elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ljas/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adverb

alias

1. alias

Noun

alias m (plural alias)

1. alias

Anagrams

• salai

German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin alias.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːli̯as/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adverb

alias

1. alias, also known as

   Synonyms: anders, eigentlich, benannt

Related terms

• Alias

Further reading

• “alias” in Duden online

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch alias, from Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈlias/ [aˈli.as]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: a‧li‧as

Adverb

alias

1. alias

Noun

alias (plural alias-alias)

1. alias
   1. another name; especially, an assumed name
   2. (computing) a name or string that can replace another name or string
2. (statistics) two similar branches of statistical analysis

Further reading

• “alias” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin alias.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ljas/
• Rhymes: -aljas
• Hyphenation: à‧lias

Adverb

alias

1. alias

Noun

alias m (invariable)

1. alias

Anagrams

• salai

Latin

Etymology

Feminine adverbial accusative of alius or adverbial genitive from an older genitive feminine singular of the same. Compare perperam, bifāriam, and forās as well as pater familiās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.li.aːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈäː.li.äs]

Adverb

aliās (not comparable)

1. (time) at a time other than the present; at another time, at other times, on another occasion, sometimes
2. (place) at another place, elsewhere

Related terms

Latin correlatives ^(edit)

type	demonstrative			anaphoric	identity	interrogative/ relative	indefinite					negative	other
	proximal	medial	distal				relative	indefinite	free choice	universal	negative polarity
basic	hic	iste, istic	ille, illic	is	ipse, īdem	quis/quī	quisquis, quīcumque	quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quispiam	quīvis, quīlibet	quisque	quisquam, ūllus, °aliquisquam	nēmō, nihil, nūllus	alius
dual						uter	utercumque	alteruter	utervīs, uterlibet	uterque		neuter	alter
place	hīc	istīc	illīc	ibī̆	ibī̆dem	ubī̆	ubiubi, ubī̆cumque	alicubī, uspiam	ubivīs, ubilibet	ubīque	usquam	nusquam, nūllibī	alibī, aliās
source	hinc	istinc	illinc	inde	indidem	unde	undecumque, undeunde	alicunde	°undelibet	undique			aliunde
destination	hūc, °hōrsum	istūc, °istōrsum	illūc, °illōrsum	eō	eōdem	quō, quōrsum	quōquō, quōcumque	aliquō, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum	quōvīs, quōlibet		quōquam	nusquam, nūllōrsum	aliō, aliōrsum
method, means, path, place	hāc	istāc	illāc	eā	eādem	quā	quāquā, quācumque	aliquā	quāvīs, quālibet	quāque		nēquāquam, haudquāquam	aliā
manner	hōc modō	istō modō	illō modō	ita, sīc, eō modō	item, itidem	ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum	utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque	quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō	quōmodolibet	utīque	ūllō modō	nūllō modō	aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō
time	num, nunc		ōlim	tum, tunc	simul	quandō, ‡cum	cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque	quondam, aliquandō	quandōlibet	quandōque	umquam	numquam	aliās
quantity				tam	†tamen, †tandem	quam	†quamquam	aliquam	quamvīs, quamlibet
size				tantus	tantusdem	quantus	quantuscumque	aliquantus	quantusvīs, quantuslibet
quality				tālis		quālis	quālis, quāliscumque	aliquālis	quālislibet
number				tot	totidem	quot	quotquot, quotcumque	aliquot	quotlibet
order				totus		quotus	quotuscumque	aliquotus	quotuslibet
repetition				totiēns		quotiēns	quotiēnscumque	aliquotiēns	quotiēnslibet
multiplication				totuplex		quotuplex
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated ° Rare ‡only used as a conjunction, not as an interrogative

Descendants

Descendants

• Catalan: àlies
• → English: alias
• French: alias
• → German: alias
• Italian: alias
• Portuguese: aliás
• Romanian: alias
• Spanish: alias
• → Swedish: alias

Adjective

aliās

1. accusative feminine plural of alius

References

• “alias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “alias”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• alias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be inattentive: alias res or aliud agere
    
  • (ambiguous) more of this another time: sed de hoc alias pluribus
    

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aliās. First attested in the 19 century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ljas/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aljas
• Syllabification: a‧lias

Noun

alias m inan

1. (computing) alias (abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks)

Declension

Declension of alias

	singular	plural
nominative	alias	aliasy
genitive	aliasu	aliasów
dative	aliasowi	aliasom
accusative	alias	aliasy
instrumental	aliasem	aliasami
locative	aliasie	aliasach
vocative	aliasie	aliasy

Conjunction

alias

1. (literary, with pseudonyms) AKA, alias

   Synonyms: aka, vel

Further reading

• alias in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• alias in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Verb

alias

1. second-person singular present indicative of aliar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin alias.

Adverb

alias

1. alias

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aliās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaljas/ [ˈa.ljas]
• Rhymes: -aljas
• Syllabification: a‧lias

Adverb

alias

1. also known as; alias

Noun

alias m (plural alias)

1. alias

   Synonyms: sobrenombre, apodo, mote

Further reading

• “alias”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Noun

alias n

1. an alias (name assumed, often to hide one's identity)

Declension

Declension of alias

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	alias	alias
	definite	aliaset	aliasets
plural	indefinite	alias	alias
	definite	aliasen	aliasens

Adverb

alias (not comparable)

1. alias (not associated with law, but often somewhat jocular formality)

   Nisse alias Nisse med kniven

   Nisse alias Nisse with-the-knife

References

• alias in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• alias in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• alias in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)