alias Latin · revision 30884

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂élyos}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈa.li.aːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈaː.li.as]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aliās''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is an adverb from [[m|la|alius|t=other]], in form an old feminine accusative or genitive, like [[m|la|forās]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨alius⟩ to [[itc-pro|*aljo-|t=another]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂élyos|t=other]], cognate with [[grc|ἄλλος|tr=állos|t=other]], [[got|𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌹𐍃|tr=aljis|t=other]] and [[sga|aile|t=other]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Asinaria'': ''ut vōs, ut aliās, pariter nunc Mārs adiuvet'', “that Mars may help you now as at other times”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is at another time, on other occasions, and Suetonius has it of “before” or “afterwards”, ''aliās … aliās'' is “at one time … at another”, as Plautus' man who asks now thirty minae, now a talent.^(OLD 2012) From that it is in other cases, otherwise (Sallust: leisure and wealth, desirable otherwise, became a burden), and in Pliny the Elder “besides”, “else” and “all the same”.^(OLD 2012) The jurists use it of place, “elsewhere”, and of manner, “in another way”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “elsewhere, at another time, at other times”.^(Stelten 1995) English ''alias'' (mid-15th century), “otherwise called”, comes from its later sense “in another way”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of other times.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust in the sense “otherwise”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder in the senses “besides” and “else”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 140–180 AD – Gaius in the sense “elsewhere”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-15th century – English [[m|en|alias]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # At another time, at other times, ''aliās … aliās'', at one time … at another.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # In other cases, [[m|en|otherwise]]; besides; else; all the same.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|elsewhere|alt=Elsewhere]]; in another way.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[alius]]

+ * [[aliter]]

+ * [[alibī]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}