alter ego

See also Alter Ego, and álter ego

English

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Etymology

From Latin "other self", which is a translation of Zeno's Citium "allos ego"

Pronunciation

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Noun

alter ego (plural alter egos)

1. Somebody's alternate personality or persona; another self.
   • 2012 May 1, Ben Child, “Mark Ruffalo gets green light to play Hulk in six-movie deal”, the Guardian:

     Ruffalo's turn as Bruce Banner and his angry green alter-ego has been widely praised. Avengers Assemble (titled The Avengers outside the UK) is on course to be one of the year's biggest films and has received strong reviews.

2. A very close and intimate friend.

Translations

alternate personality or persona

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 另一個我 (cmn), 另一个我 (cmn) (lìng yī gè wǒ)

• French: alter ego (fr) m, un autre moi-même (fr) m
• German: Alter Ego (de) n, anderes Ich (de) n
• Icelandic: annað sjálf (is) n
• Japanese: アルター・エゴ (ja) (arutaru-ego), 分身 (ja) (ぶんしん, bunshin)
• Latin: alter ego (la) m
• Norwegian: alter ego (no) n

• Polish: alter ego (pl), drugie ja (pl)
• Portuguese: alter ego (pt), outro eu (pt)
• Russian: альтер эго (ru) (ál’tɛr égo) n, другое я (ru) (drugóje ja) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: алтер его (sh), друго ја (sh) n

  Roman: alter ego (sh), drugo ja (sh) n

• Spanish: álter ego (es) m, otro yo (es) m
• Swedish: alter ego (sv) n

very close and intimate friend

Synonyms

• alter idem

See also

• double life