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Baba Malay
Etymology
From Malay halia.
Noun
alia
- ginger
Further reading
Catalan
Verb
alia
- inflection of aliar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Esperanto
Etymology
From Latin alia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Audio:
- Rhymes: -ia
- Hyphenation: a‧li‧a
Adjective
alia (accusative singular alian, plural aliaj, accusative plural aliajn)
- 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
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ālium
Adjective
alia
- inflection of alius:
- feminine nominative/vocative singular
- neuter nominative/accusative/nominative plural
Adjective
aliā
- 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
- inflection of aliar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French allier.
Verb
a alia (third-person singular present aliază, past participle aliat) 1st conj.
- to ally
- to alloy
Conjugation