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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la alius}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aliā''' (adverb, not comparable)^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|alius|t=other]], the feminine ablative used as an adverb with ⟨viā⟩ “way” understood.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan derives the pronoun from [[itc-pro|*aljo-|t=another]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂el-io-|t=another]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[osc|allo]], [[xum|arsir]], [[grc|ἄλλος|tr=állos]], and [[sga|aile]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who in the prologue of the ''Rudens'' has ''is nos per gentis alios alia disparat'', “he scatters us through the nations, some one way, some another”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means by another route or a different way, as in Plautus' ''Miles gloriosus'' and in Livy, who writes ''non alia quam per Thraciam'', “by no other way than through Thrace”.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) With a form of [[alius]] it expresses distribution, “some by one way, others by another”: Livy has ''alii alia in civitates suas dilapsi sunt'', “they slipped away to their own cities, each by a different road”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Repeated, ''aliā … aliā'' means in one direction … in the other, as in Pliny the Younger's description of a sun room facing the terrace on one side and the sea on the other.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Georges also cites the jurist Pomponius and Florus.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses ''alii alia'', some one way, others another.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of a route and of people dispersing.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 120 AD – Florus has ''aliā … aliā''.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # By another [[m|en|route]], by a different way.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''aliā … aliā'': in one direction … in the other.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # With a form of ''alius'': some by one way, others by another.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[alius]]

+ * [[aliās]]

+ * [[aliter]]

+ * [[alibī]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Georges also lists a noun ''ālia'', a spelling of [[ālea]] “dice game”, and ''Ālia'', the river Allia.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}