alienus
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Latin
Etymology
From alius (“other, another”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /a.liˈeː.nus/, [älʲiˈeːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.liˈe.nus/, [äliˈɛːnus]
Adjective
aliēnus (feminine aliēna, neuter aliēnum, comparative aliēnior, superlative aliēnissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- Of that which belongs to another person, place, or object—of another, alien, foreign
- Synonyms: aliēnigena, peregrīnus, advena
- 163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos 1:
- Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
- I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.
- Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.11:
- quod alienis cladibus ceciderant animi
- Because their spirit had been decayed by the defeats of the others
- quod alienis cladibus ceciderant animi
- unfriendly, inimical, hostile, suspicious
- unfamiliar with something or a stranger to something
- unsuitable, incongruous, inconsistent, strange
- (of the body) dead; corrupted; paralyzed
- (of the mind) insane, mad
Declension
First/second-declension adjective, with locative.
singular | plural | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | aliēnus | aliēna | aliēnum | aliēnī | aliēnae | aliēna | |
genitive | aliēnī | aliēnae | aliēnī | aliēnōrum | aliēnārum | aliēnōrum | |
dative | aliēnō | aliēnae | aliēnō | aliēnīs | |||
accusative | aliēnum | aliēnam | aliēnum | aliēnōs | aliēnās | aliēna | |
ablative | aliēnō | aliēnā | aliēnō | aliēnīs | |||
vocative | aliēne | aliēna | aliēnum | aliēnī | aliēnae | aliēna | |
locative | aliēnī | aliēnae | aliēnī | aliēnīs |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Insular Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Old Catalan: allè
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
- “alienus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “alienus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- alienus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- alienus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid alienum (a) dignitate sua or merely a se ducere
- (ambiguous) the expression is not in accordance with Latin usage: aliquid a consuetudine sermonis latini abhorret, alienum est
- (ambiguous) to have an inclination for a thing: propensum, proclivem esse ad aliquid (opp. alienum, aversum esse, abhorrere ab aliqua re)
- (ambiguous) to incur debts: aes alienum (always in sing.) facere, contrahere
- (ambiguous) to incur debts on a large scale: grande, magnum (opp. exiguum) aes alienum conflare
- (ambiguous) to get into debt: incidere in aes alienum
- (ambiguous) to be in debt: aes alienum habere
- (ambiguous) to pay one's debts: aes alienum dissolvere, exsolvere
- (ambiguous) to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid alienum (a) dignitate sua or merely a se ducere