• IPA^(key): /aˈlius/
• Rhymes: -ius
• Syllabification: a‧li‧us

alius

1. conditional of alii

From Proto-Italic *aljos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos, from *h₂el- (“beyond, other”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos) (Modern Greek άλλος (állos)), αἶλος (aîlos) (Arcadocypriot), Old Armenian այլ (ayl), Proto-Celtic *alyos, Proto-Germanic *aljaz (Modern English else). Other forms from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- include Latin ille, uls.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.li.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.li.us]

alius (feminine alia, neuter aliud); first/second-declension determiner (pronominal declension or non-pronominal declension)

1. other, another, any other
2. else
3. different
4. (distributively) the one ... the other; one ... another
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.17:

     Ostende quis nōn sit: alius libīdinī servit, alius avāritiae, alius ambitiōnī, omnēs timōrī.

     Show [me someone] who is not [a slave]: the one is a slave to lust, the other to greed, yet another to ambition, [but] all [are slaves] to fear.

• When used in pairs, alius ... alius functions like English one ... another, while aliī ... aliī functions like English some ... others
• In an affirmative sentence, when alius is followed by an the ablative, it typically means "other than". In a negative construction, this is typically construed as "nothing else but" or "nothing other than".

First/second-declension adjective (pronominal declension or non-pronominal declension).

The regular genitive singular alīus is rare, with alterī̆us typically being used instead.

• Asturian: ál
• Old Galician-Portuguese: al
• Old Spanish: ál

• et aliī

• “alius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “alius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “alius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to put off till another time; to postpone: aliquid in aliud tempus, in posterum differre
    
  • concatenation, interdependence of causes: rerum causae aliae ex aliis nexae
    
  • (ambiguous) to be inattentive: alias res or aliud agere
    
  • to judge others by oneself: de se (ex se de aliis) coniecturam facere
    
  • (ambiguous) he is a young man of great promise: adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
    
  • to think one thing, say another; to conceal one's opinions: aliter sentire ac loqui (aliud sentire, aliud loqui)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be inattentive: alias res or aliud agere
    
  • (ambiguous) he is a young man of great promise: adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to turn the conversation to another topic: sermonem alio transferre
    
  • (ambiguous) to transfer the seat of war elsewhere: bellum transferre alio, in...
    
  • (ambiguous) more of this another time: sed de hoc alias pluribus
    
• alius in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016