aliter

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin aliter (“otherwise”), from alius (“other”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.lɪ.tə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.lɪ.tɚ/

Adverb

aliter (not comparable)

1. otherwise

Anagrams

• Altier, airtel, iteral, lirate, retail, retial, tailer

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French

Etymology

a- +‎ lit +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.li.te/
• Homophones: alitai, alité, alitée, alitées, alités, alitez

Verb

aliter

1. (reflexive) to be bedridden
2. (transitive) to cause to become bedridden

Conjugation

Conjugation of aliter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	aliter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	alitant /a.li.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		alité /a.li.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	alite /a.lit/	alites /a.lit/	alite /a.lit/	alitons /a.li.tɔ̃/	alitez /a.li.te/	alitent /a.lit/
	imperfect	alitais /a.li.tɛ/	alitais /a.li.tɛ/	alitait /a.li.tɛ/	alitions /a.li.tjɔ̃/	alitiez /a.li.tje/	alitaient /a.li.tɛ/
	past historic2	alitai /a.li.te/	alitas /a.li.ta/	alita /a.li.ta/	alitâmes /a.li.tam/	alitâtes /a.li.tat/	alitèrent /a.li.tɛʁ/
	future	aliterai /a.li.tʁe/	aliteras /a.li.tʁa/	alitera /a.li.tʁa/	aliterons /a.li.tʁɔ̃/	aliterez /a.li.tʁe/	aliteront /a.li.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	aliterais /a.li.tʁɛ/	aliterais /a.li.tʁɛ/	aliterait /a.li.tʁɛ/	aliterions /a.li.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	aliteriez /a.li.tə.ʁje/	aliteraient /a.li.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	alite /a.lit/	alites /a.lit/	alite /a.lit/	alitions /a.li.tjɔ̃/	alitiez /a.li.tje/	alitent /a.lit/
	imperfect2	alitasse /a.li.tas/	alitasses /a.li.tas/	alitât /a.li.ta/	alitassions /a.li.ta.sjɔ̃/	alitassiez /a.li.ta.sje/	alitassent /a.li.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	alite /a.lit/	—	alitons /a.li.tɔ̃/	alitez /a.li.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• lit

Further reading

• “aliter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• altier, reliât

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Latin

Etymology

Adverb from alius (“other”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.ter/, [ˈälʲɪt̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.ter/, [ˈäːlit̪er]

Adverb

aliter (not comparable)

1. otherwise
2. differently, wrongly, poorly
3. badly, negatively
4. mis- (aliter exceptum; mis-understood)

Related terms

Latin correlatives ^(edit)

type	demonstrative			anaphoric	identity	interrogative/ relative	indefinite					negative	other
	proximal	medial	distal				relative	indefinite	universal	free choice	negative polarity
basic	hic	iste, istic	ille, illic	is	ipse, īdem	quis/quī	quisquis, quīcumque	quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quispiam	quisque	quīvis, quīlibet	quisquam, ūllus, °aliquisquam	nēmō, nihil, nūllus	alius
dual						uter	utercumque	alteruter	uterque	utervīs, uterlibet		neuter	alter
place	hīc	istīc	illīc	ibī̆	ibī̆dem	ubī̆	ubiubi, ubī̆cumque	alicubī, uspiam	ubīque	ubivīs, ubilibet	usquam	nusquam, nūllibī	alibī, aliās
source	hinc	istinc	illinc	inde	indidem	unde	undecumque, undeunde	alicunde	undique	°undelibet			aliunde
destination	hūc, °hōrsum	istūc, °istōrsum	illūc, °illōrsum	eō	eōdem	quō, quōrsum	quōquō, quōcumque	aliquō, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum		quōvīs, quōlibet	quōquam	nusquam, nūllōrsum	aliō, aliōrsum
method, means, path, place	hāc	istāc	illāc	eā	eādem	quā	quāquā, quācumque	aliquā	quāque	quāvīs, quālibet		nēquāquam, haudquāquam	aliā
manner	hōc modō	istō modō	illō modō	ita, sīc, eō modō	item, itidem	ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum	utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque	quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō	utique	quōmodolibet	ūllō modō	nūllō modō	aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō
time	num, nunc		ōlim	tum, tunc	simul	quandō, ‡cum	cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque	quondam, aliquandō	quandōque	quandōlibet	umquam	numquam	aliās
quantity				tam	†tamen, †tandem	quam	†quamquam	aliquam		quamvīs, quamlibet
size				tantus	tantusdem	quantus	quantuscumque	aliquantus		quantusvīs, quantuslibet
quality				tālis		quālis	quālis, quāliscumque	aliquālis		quālislibet
number				tot	totidem	quot	quotquot, quotcumque	aliquot		quotlibet
order				totus		quotus	quotuscumque	aliquotus		quotuslibet
repetition				totiēns		quotiēns	quotiēnscumque	aliquotiēns		quotiēnslibet
multiplication				totuplex		quotuplex
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated ° Rare ‡only used as a conjunction, not as an interrogative

References

• “aliter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aliter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aliter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • this is quite another matter: hoc longe aliter, secus est
    
  • the result has surprised me; I was not prepared for this development: res aliter cecidit ac putaveram
    
  • to think one thing, say another; to conceal one's opinions: aliter sentire ac loqui (aliud sentire, aliud loqui)
    
  • the matter stands so (otherwise): res ita (aliter) se habet