alibi

See also: Alibi and álibi

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Latin alibī (“elsewhere, at another place”, adverb).

PronunciationEdit

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæl.ə.baɪ/

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NounEdit

alibi (plural alibis)

1. (law) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed

   to set up an alibi

   to prove an alibi

   • 1988, Criminal Law Deskbook, ISBN 0820512176:

     Alibi is different from all of the other defenses . . . it is based upon the premise that the defendant is truly innocent.

2. An excuse, especially one used to avoid responsibility or blame.

Derived termsEdit

• Alibi Ike

Usage notesEdit

• A very good alibi might be described e.g. as perfect, watertight, airtight, solid or iron-clad.

TranslationsEdit

criminal legal defense

• Arabic: دَفْع بِالْغَائِبَة‏‎ m (dafʿ bi-l-ḡāʾiba)
• Armenian: ալիբի (hy) (alibi), այլուրեքություն (hy) (aylurekʿutʿyun)
• Belarusian: а́лібі n (álibi)
• Catalan: coartada
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不在場證明, 不在场证明 (bùzài chǎng zhèngmíng), 不在犯罪現場, 不在犯罪现场 (bùzài fànzuì xiànchǎng)

• Czech: alibi (cs) n
• Danish: alibi (da)
• Dutch: alibi (nl) n
• Esperanto: alibio
• Finnish: alibi (fi)
• French: alibi (fr) m
• German: Alibi (de) n
• Greek: άλλοθι (el) n (állothi)

• Hungarian: alibi (hu)
• Italian: alibi (it) m
• Japanese: アリバイ (ja) (aribai)
• Kannada: ಅಲಿಬಿ (alibi)
• Korean: 알리바이 (ko) (allibai), 알리비 (allibi)
• Norwegian: alibi (no)
• Polish: alibi (pl) n
• Portuguese: álibi (pt) m
• Russian: а́либи (ru) n (álibi)
• Serbo-Croatian: alibi m
• Slovak: alibi n
• Spanish: coartada (es) f
• Swedish: alibi (sv)

excuse

• Greek: άλλοθι (el) n (állothi), δικαιολογία (el) f (dikaiología)

VerbEdit

alibi (third-person singular simple present alibies, present participle alibiing, simple past and past participle alibied)

1. To provide an alibi for.
2. To provide an excuse for.

See alsoEdit

• Alibi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Defense (legal) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Locked room mystery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Perfect murder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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FinnishEdit

NounEdit

alibi

1. alibi

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of alibi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		alibi	alibit
genitive		alibin	alibien
partitive		alibia	alibeja
illative		alibiin	alibeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		alibi	alibit
accusative	nom.	alibi	alibit
	gen.	alibin
genitive		alibin	alibien
partitive		alibia	alibeja
inessive		alibissa	alibeissa
elative		alibista	alibeista
illative		alibiin	alibeihin
adessive		alibilla	alibeilla
ablative		alibilta	alibeilta
allative		alibille	alibeille
essive		alibina	alibeina
translative		alibiksi	alibeiksi
instructive		—	alibein
abessive		alibitta	alibeitta
comitative		—	alibeineen

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

alibi m (plural alibis)

1. alibi

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ItalianEdit

NounEdit

alibi m (invariable)

1. alibi

AnagramsEdit

• abili
• bilia
• Libia

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From alius (“other, another”) + ibī.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.biː/, [ˈa.lɪ.biː]

AdverbEdit

alibī (not comparable)

1. elsewhere

Related termsEdit

• alius

DescendantsEdit

• English: alibi
• Danish: alibi
• Dutch: alibi
• Finnish: alibi
• French: alibi
• German: Alibi

• Italian: alibi
• Norwegian: alibi
• Polish: alibi
• Portuguese: álibi
• Russian: а́либи (álibi)
• Swedish: alibi

See alsoEdit

• ibī
• ubī

ReferencesEdit

• alibi in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• alibi in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “alibi” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

alibi n

1. alibi

DeclensionEdit

Indeclinable.

Further readingEdit

• alibi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

NounEdit

àlībi m (Cyrillic spelling а̀лӣби)

1. alibi

DeclensionEdit

Declension of alibi

	singular	plural
nominative	alibi	alibiji
genitive	alibija	alibija
dative	alibiju	alibijima
accusative	alibi	alibije
vocative	alibi	alibiji
locative	alibiju	alibijima
instrumental	alibijem	alibijima

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SlovakEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈalibi/

EtymologyEdit

From Latin alibī.

NounEdit

alibi n

1. alibi

DeclensionEdit

Indeclinable.

Further readingEdit

• alibi in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk