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Italian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *alterūi, corresponding to classical Latin alterī (dative singular of alter). The -ui ending, analogous to lui, costui, colui, is ultimately due to the influence of cui.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈtruj/
- Rhymes: -uj
- Hyphenation: al‧trùi
Determiner
altrui (invariable)
- (possessive) another person's, someone else's, other people's, of others (genitive of altro)
- Synonym: d'altri
Pronoun
altrui
- (literary) someone else, other people
mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 16–18; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:[…] guardai in alto e vidi le sue spalle ¶ vestite già de’ raggi del pianeta ¶ che mena dritto altrui per ogne calle.- Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders, ¶ Vested already with that planet's rays ¶ Which leadeth others right by every road.
Anagrams
Old French
Pronoun
altrui
- Alternative form of autrui