alias

See also: aliás and alías

English

Etymology

From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.li.əs/

  • Audio (RP)

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• Rhymes: -eɪliəs

Adverb

alias (not comparable)

1. Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called.
   • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 3, page 168:

     Hitherto the commanding influence of Sir Robert Evelyn's character had sunk his own into insignificance—now he had no "rival near the throne," alias the bench of county magistrates.

2. (law) Used to connect the different names of a person who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful

   Smith, alias Simpson.

Synonyms

• AKA

Coordinate terms

• FKA, PKA

Translations

adverb

• French: alias (fr)
• Polish: alias (pl)

Noun

alias (plural aliases)

1. Another name; an assumed name.
2. (law) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
3. (computing) An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
4. (signal processing) An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.

Synonyms

• (another name): pseudonym

Translations

another name; an assumed name

• Azerbaijani: ləqəb
• Bashkir: ҡушамат (qušamat)
• Basque: ezizen (eu), goitizen (eu)
• Bulgarian: псевдоним (bg) m (psevdonim), прозвище (bg) n (prozvište)
• Catalan: àlies (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 別名 (zh), 别名 (zh) (biémíng), 化名 (zh) (huàmíng)

• Esperanto: alinomo
• Finnish: alias (fi)
• French: pseudonyme (fr) m
• German: Pseudonym (de) n, Deckname (de) m
• Greek: ψευδώνυμο (el) n (psevdónymo)
• Ido: pseudonimo (io), alias (io)
• Indonesian: alias (id)

• Irish: ainm bréige m, ailias (computing)
• Japanese: 仮名 (ja) (かめい, kamei), 偽名 (ja) (ぎめい, gimei), 異名 (ja) (いみょう, imyō), 雅号 (がごう, gagō), 別名 (ja) (べつめい, betsumei) (about references in programming)
• Korean: 가명 (ko) (gamyeong)
• Middle English: surname, surnoun
• Oriya: ଓରଫ୍ (orôph)
• Polish: alias (pl) m
• Portuguese: pseudónimo (pt) m (Portugal), pseudônimo (pt) m (Brazil), cognome (pt) m
• Russian: псевдони́м (ru) m (psevdoním), про́звище (ru) n (prózvišče), кли́чка (ru) f (klíčka), вы́мышленное и́мя n (výmyšlennoje ímja)
• Spanish: alias (es) m, seudónimo (es) m, sobrenombre (es) m, apodo (es) m
• Swedish: alias (sv), pseudonym (sv) c, öknamn (sv) n, tillnamn (sv) n
• Welsh: enw arall m, alias (cy) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} pseudonyme (fr) m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} pseudonimo (it) m

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} pseudonim (ro) n

Verb

alias (third-person singular simple present aliases, present participle aliasing, simple past and past participle aliased)

1. (computing) To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
2. (signal processing, of two signals) to become indistinguishable
   • 1989, Ken C. Pohlmann, The compact disc: a handbook of theory and use, page 22:

     When the signal frequency reaches half the sampling frequency, there are only two samples per cycle, which is the absolute minimum needed to record a waveform. A higher frequency would cause the digitization system to alias.

   • 1999, Carlo Bartolozzi; Riccardo Lencioni, Liver malignancies: diagnostic and interventional radiology, page 59:

     Finally, as it is a frequency detection technique, color Doppler US has the potential to alias

   • 2005, James Bao-yen Tsui, Fundamentals of global positioning system receivers, page 106:

     This technique can be used to alias the L1 and L2 bands of the GPS into the baseband

See also

• Origin of signal processing usage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “alias” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• alias in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Translations

verb

Anagrams

• Alais, asail

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Finnish

Etymology

From Latin alias.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑliɑs/, [ˈɑliɑs̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑliɑs
• Syllabification: a‧li‧as

Noun

alias

1. alias

Declension

Inflection of alias (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		alias	aliakset
genitive		aliaksen	aliasten aliaksien
partitive		aliasta	aliaksia
illative		aliakseen	aliaksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		alias	aliakset
accusative	nom.	alias	aliakset
	gen.	aliaksen
genitive		aliaksen	aliasten aliaksien
partitive		aliasta	aliaksia
inessive		aliaksessa	aliaksissa
elative		aliaksesta	aliaksista
illative		aliakseen	aliaksiin
adessive		aliaksella	aliaksilla
ablative		aliakselta	aliaksilta
allative		aliakselle	aliaksille
essive		aliaksena	aliaksina
translative		aliakseksi	aliaksiksi
instructive		—	aliaksin
abessive		aliaksetta	aliaksitta
comitative		—	aliaksineen

Possessive forms of alias (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	aliakseni	aliaksemme
2nd person	aliaksesi	aliaksenne
3rd person	aliaksensa

Anagrams

• Alisa, Saila, laasi, lasia, saali, salia, silaa

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aliās (“at another time; elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ljas/

• Audio

  (file)

Adverb

alias

1. alias

Noun

alias m (plural alias)

1. alias

Anagrams

• salai

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ljas/
• Rhymes: -aljas
• Hyphenation: à‧lias

Adverb

alias

1. alias

Noun

alias m (invariable)

1. alias

Anagrams

• salai

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Latin

Etymology

From alius.

Adverb

aliās (not comparable)

1. (time) at a time other than the present; at another time, at other times, on another occasion, sometimes
2. (place) at another place, elsewhere

Related terms

Latin correlatives ^(edit)

type	interrogative	indefinite	(medial) demonstrative	proximal demonstrative	distal demonstrative	relative	indefinite relative	identity	other
basic	quis, quī	quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quisque, quisquam, aliquisquam, quispiam, ūllus	is, iste, istic	hic	ille, illic	quī	quisquis, quīcumque	ipse, īdem	alter, alius
dual	uter	alteruter, uterque				uter	utercumque
number	quot	aliquot	tot			quot	quotquot, quotcumque	totidem
order	quotus		totus			quotus	quotuscumque
quantity	quam	aliquam	tam			quam	†quamquam	†tamen, †tandem
size	quantus	aliquantus	tantus			quantus	quantuscumque	tantusdem
quality	quālis	aliquālis	tālis			quālis	quālis, quāliscumque
manner	ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum	utique, quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō	ita, sic, eō/istō modō	hōc modō	illō modō	ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum	utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque	item, itidem	aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō
method, path, place	quā	aliquā, quāque	eā, istāc	hāc	illāc	quā	quāquā, quācumque	eādem	aliā
place	ubi	alicubi, ubique, usquam, uspiam	ibi, istic	hīc	illīc	ubi	ubiubi, ubicumque	ibidem	alibī, aliās
source	unde	alicunde, undeunde	inde, istinc	hinc	illinc	unde	undecumque	indidem	aliunde
destination	quō, quōrsum	aliquō, quōquam, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum	eō, istūc, °istōrsum	hūc, °hōrsum	illūc, °illōrsum	quō	quōquō, quōcumque	eōdem	aliō, aliorsum
time	quandō	quondam, aliquandō, quandōque, umquam	tum, tunc	num, nunc	ōlim	cum, quandō	cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque	simul	aliās
exact time	quota hora		ea/ista hora	hac hora	illa hora	quota hora	quotacumque hora	eadem hora	altera/alia hora
repetition	quotiēns	aliquotiēns	totiēns			quotiēns	quotiēnscumque
multiplication	quotuplex		totuplex			quotuplex
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated ° Rare

Descendants

• Catalan: àlies
• English: alias
• Portuguese: aliás
• Spanish: alias

Adjective

aliās

1. accusative feminine plural of alius

References

• alias in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• alias in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• alias 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 be inattentive: alias res or aliud agere
    
  • (ambiguous) more of this another time: sed de hoc alias pluribus
    

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Polish

Etymology

From Latin aliās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ljas/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aljas
• Syllabification: a‧lias

Noun

alias m inan

1. (computing) alias (abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks)

Declension

Declension of alias

	singular	plural
nominative	alias	aliasy
genitive	aliasu	aliasów
dative	aliasowi	aliasom
accusative	alias	aliasy
instrumental	aliasem	aliasami
locative	aliasie	aliasach
vocative	aliasie	aliasy

Conjunction

alias

1. (literary, with pseudonyms) AKA, alias

   Synonyms: aka, vel

Further reading

• alias in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• alias in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Verb

alias

1. second-person singular (tu) present indicative of aliar

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin alias.

Adverb

alias

1. alias

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin aliās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaljas/, [ˈa.ljas]

Adverb

alias

1. also known as; alias

Noun

alias m (plural alias)

1. alias

   Synonyms: sobrenombre, apodo, mote

Further reading

• “alias” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.