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(Latin: other, another)


Ab alio expectes, alteri quod feceris.
Expect from others what you have done to them.

Prout vultis ut faciant vobis homines, et vos facite illis similiter, “As you would that men should do to you, do you also to them in like manner.” From the Latin Vulgate, Luke 6:31; which is a Latin version of the Bible produced by Saint Jerome in the 4th century.

From Latin vulgata editio, “edition made public, edition for ordinary people” a version used by the Roman Catholic Church.

alias
1. An assumed name: "The criminal was known by various aliases."
2. As known or named at another time or place.
3. A false name used to conceal one's identity; an assumed name.
4. At another time; in another place; in other circumstances; otherwise.
5. In electronics, a false signal in telecommunication links from beats between signal frequency and sampling frequency.
alias dictus
Otherwise called.

This is the full version of the English, "alias", with the meaning "an assumed name". The Latin word, alias, can be translated as "at another time". The Romans used alias dictus in referring to someone's nickname which was applied without any effort to deceive.

In modern law, the expression may be utilized in much the same way as "also known as" (a.k.a.) is used.

Alia tendanda via est.
Another way must be tried.

This strongly suggests that someone's present efforts will prove fruitless so, "We must go back and try another approach."

alibi
1. In law, a form of defense whereby a defendant attempts to prove that he or she was elsewhere when the crime in question was committed.
2. The fact of having been elsewhere when a crime in question was committed.
3. An explanation offered to avoid blame or justify action; an excuse.
4. To make an excuse for oneself.
5. To make an excuse for another person.
alien
1. A citizen of a country other than the one he or she is currently in.
2. Anyone who does not belong to, or does not feel accepted by, a group or society.
3. A being from another planet, or another part of the universe; especially, in works of science fiction.
4. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
alienable
1. Transferable to another owner.
2. Capable of being transferred by a legal process to another owner.
alienate
1. To arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness.
2. To cause someone to change his or her previously friendly or supportive attitude and become unfriendly, unsympathetic, or hostile.
3. To make someone feel that he or she does not belong to or to share in something, or is isolated from it: "People with such behavior often feel alienated from society."
4. To cause something, especially someone's affections, to be directed toward somebody or something else.
5. To transfer (property or a right) to the ownership of another person; especially, by an act of the owner rather than by inheritance.
Aliena vitia in oculis habemus; a tergo nostra sunt.
Another's faults are before our eyes; our own [faults] are behind us.

Expressed by Seneca, in his writing titled, On Anger.

aliicide
Killing another person; murder.
Aliud corde premunt, aliud ore promunt.
One thing they conceal in the heart, they disclose another with the mouth.

Another version is, "No use trying to keep a secret." A warning that when more than one person knows something, it is no longer a secret because there is usually someone who will talk about it.

Aliudque cupido, mens aliud suadet. Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.
Desire persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

From Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C. - c. A.D. 17).

inalienability
1. That which cannot be transferred to another or to others.
2. Incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another.
3. Not subject to forfeiture.
inalienable
1. That which cannot be transferred to another or to others; such as, inalienable rights.
2. Anything that is incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another person, etc.

That which is inalienable cannot be bought, sold, or transferred from one individual to another; for example, the personal rights to life and liberty guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States are inalienable.

Similarly, various types of property are inalienable; such as, rivers, streams, and highways.

inalienably
1. In a manner that forbids alienation; such as, rights that are inalienably vested.
2. Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; such as, an inalienable birthright.

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "another, other, different, alternating, changing": allo-; alter-; allelo-; hetero-; mut-; poikilo-; reciproc-; vari-.


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