Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 97.aliēnus on page 97
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aliēnus foreign
aliēnus is a Latin Adjective that primarily means foreign.
Definitions for aliēnus
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
Belonging to another (cp. alius), foreign, strange, alien
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A person or slave belonging to another person.
- 2
A foreigner.
- 3
A stranger or person unconnected by blood, outsider.
Adjective
- 1
Of, belonging to, or affecting others, not one's own. (b) (spec.) other than one's own wife, husband, or lover, of other men or women; belonging to such a person. (c) given to, or inflicted on, others; endured by others. (d) done or made by others; inspired by, or derived from others. (e) AES ~um, debt.
- 2
Appropriate to other persons or things, unusual, unnatural.
- 3
Unconnected, separate, independent. (b) remote (from a state). (c) physically separate.
- 4
Of another country, foreign. (b) (of time) to which a person or thing does not belong, different, other.
- 5
Unconnected by blood, unrelated. (b) of a different variety or species.
Sentences with aliēnus
Latin to English
Homo Sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto.Compare I am human: Nothing human is alien to me.
Linque tuas sedes alienaque litora quaere, o iuvenis: maior rerum tibi nascitur ordo.Compare Leave thine home, O youth, and seek out alien shores: a larger range of life is ordained for thee.
Est enim hoc commune vitium in magnis liberisque civitatibus, ut invidia gloriae comes sit, et libenter de his detrahant, quos eminuere videant altius: neque animo aequo pauperes alienam opulentium intuentur fortunam.Compare It is a general failing in great and free states that envy should be a concomitant of distinction: people like to pull down those whom they see rising too high; nor do the poor look with equanimity on fortunes in which they have no share.
Servitium rex superbus, suus libertas immemor alienus oppugno venio.Compare The slaves of proud kings, unmindful of their own liberty, are coming to attack that of others.
Hoc patriumst, potius consuefacere filium sua sponte recte facere quam alieno metu: hoc pater ac dominus interest.Compare That's the way of a father, to accustom his son to do the right thing of his own accord rather than by fear of someone else; that's where a father differs from a master.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 471.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 97.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 121.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "aliēnus, aliēna, aliēnum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/alienus-aliena-alienum.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 471.on page 471
