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Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
alieno
- first-person singular present indicative of alienar
Italian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin aliēnus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈljɛ.no/
- Rhymes: -ɛno
- Hyphenation: a‧liè‧no
Adjective
alieno (feminine aliena, masculine plural alieni, feminine plural aliene)
- averse
- unwilling
- alien
- Synonym: extraterrestre
Noun
alieno m (plural alieni, feminine aliena)
- alien
- Synonym: extraterrestre
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
alieno
- first-person singular present indicative of alienare
Further reading
- alieno in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From aliēnus (“foreign, alien”) + -ō.
Verb
aliēnō (present infinitive aliēnāre, perfect active aliēnāvī, supine aliēnātum); first conjugation
- to change the nature of a person or thing into something else
- to make something the property of another, transfer by sale, alienate
- to make foreign, remove, separate
- to cast off, estrange, alienate, set at variance, make enemies
- (with mentem) to take away or deprive of reason, drive mad or insane
- (passive voice, of parts of the body) to perish, die
- (passive voice) to be disinclined to, have an aversion for, avoid
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
aliēnō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of aliēnus
Further reading
- “alieno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “alieno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- alieno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to become estranged, alienated from some one: voluntatemor animum alicuius a se abalienare, aliquem a se abalienare or alienare
- (ambiguous) to live on one's means: de suo (opp. alieno) vivere
- (ambiguous) to be in debt: in aere alieno esse
- (ambiguous) to be deeply in debt: aere alieno obrutum, demersum esse
- (ambiguous) to have pressing debts: aere alieno oppressum esse
- (ambiguous) to get out of debt: ex aere alieno exire
- (ambiguous) to get out of debt: aere alieno liberari
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.liˈẽ.nu/ , (faster pronunciation) /aˈljẽ.nu/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.liˈẽ.nu/ , (faster pronunciation) /aˈljẽ.nu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.liˈe.no/ , (faster pronunciation) /aˈlje.no/
- Rhymes: -ɛnu
- Hyphenation: a‧li‧e‧no
Verb
alieno
- first-person singular present indicative of alienar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈljeno/
- Rhymes: -eno
- Syllabification: a‧lie‧no
Verb
alieno
- first-person singular present indicative of alienar