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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂el-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈa.lɪ.tɛr]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈaː.li.ter]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''aliter''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is formed [[af|la|alius|-ter|t1=other]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|alius]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*al-jo-|t=another]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂el-io-|t=another]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's first citation is Plautus: ''sīn aliter sient animātī'', “but if they are minded otherwise”.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ ''Aliter'' is “in another way, otherwise, differently”, often with ''atque'', ''quam'' or ''ac'' (Plautus: ''longē aliter est amīcus atque amātor'', “a friend is something very different from a lover”).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Repeated, ''aliter … aliter'' is “in one way … in another”, and ''nōn aliter quam sī'' is “exactly as if”.^(OLD 2012) As a euphemism it is “otherwise than one wishes, badly” (Cicero: ''sīn aliter acciderit'', “if it turns out otherwise”).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) It also means “on any other terms, if not, otherwise, else” (Cicero: ''neque enim aliter stāre possēmus'', “for we could not stand otherwise”).^(OLD 2012)
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+ Church Latin glosses it “otherwise”, and ''aliter atque'' “otherwise than”.^(Stelten 1995) Wiktionary adds “wrongly, poorly”.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''sīn aliter sient animātī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 190–159 BC – Terence: ''haud aliter cēnseō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''sīn aliter acciderit''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adverb===
+ # [[m|en|otherwise]], differently, in another way.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)
+ # ''aliter … aliter'': in one way … in another.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''nōn aliter quam sī'': exactly as if.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Otherwise than one would wish, badly, unfavourably.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # If not, else, on any other terms.^(OLD 2012)
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[alius]]
+ * [[alter]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}