Etymology

From LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#ALIASCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ALIAS alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.li.əs/Category:English 3-syllable words#ALIASCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ALIAS

  • Audio (Southern England):

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    Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#ALIAS
• Rhymes: -eɪliəsCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪliəs#ALIASCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪliəs/3 syllables#ALIAS

Adverb

alias (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#ALIASCategory:English adverbs#ALIASCategory:English uncomparable adverbs#ALIASCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called; also known as; formerly known as.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#ALIAS

   • 1845, Clergymen of the Church of England, editors, The Christian’s Monthly Magazine and Church of England Review, volume IV, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., pages 364–365:

     When indeed a Popish monarch may fill our throne, and the successor of St. Peter shall be the spiritual head of our Church; then shall your “esoterics,” alias “Church principles,” be in the ascendant in our Universities, and Who shall say that we may not have a Thorp lecturer in each of our Colleges, Neale and Webb scholarships, Regii professores supplying the places of those who shall now be superannuated, all teaching, and empowered to confer degrees in the, symbolism of mystical divinity:—the professor of music, not dealing as he now must, with crotchets and quavers, but in the far higher branches of the sacramentality of sounds, with their correspondent colours, instruments, bearing, &c. &c., and so of others?

     Category:English terms with quotations#ALIAS

2. (lawCategory:en:Law#ALIAS) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALIAS

Noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

alias

Wikipedia

alias (plural aliases)Category:English lemmas#ALIASCategory:English nouns#ALIASCategory:English countable nouns#ALIASCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. Another name; especially, an assumed name.

   Synonyms: (another name) synonym, poecilonym (rare), (assumed name) pseudonym

   Hyponyms: pen name, nom de plume; nom de guerre; nom de clavier, nom de Web, nom de voyage

2. (lawCategory:en:Law#ALIAS) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
3. (computingCategory:en:Computing#ALIAS) An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
4. (signal processingCategory:en:Signal processing#ALIAS) An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.

Verb

alias (third-person singular simple present aliases, present participle aliasing, simple past and past participle aliased)Category:English lemmas#ALIASCategory:English verbs#ALIASCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. (computingCategory:en:Computing#ALIAS) To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
2. (signal processingCategory:en:Signal processing#ALIAS, of two signals, ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ALIASCategory:English intransitive verbs#ALIAS) To make or 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#ALIAS

   • 1999, Carlo Bartolozzi with 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

     Category:English terms with quotations#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

     Category:English terms with quotations#ALIAS

See also

• Origin of signal processing usage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “alias”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “alias”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Alais, asail

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈlias/Category:Esperanto 3-syllable words#ALIASCategory:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation#ALIAS

• Audio:

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  Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation#ALIAS
• Rhymes: -iasCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/ias#ALIASCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/ias/3 syllables#ALIAS
• Syllabification: a‧li‧as

Verb

aliasCategory:Esperanto non-lemma forms#ALIASCategory:Esperanto verb forms#ALIASCategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. present of aliiCategory:Esperanto verb forms#ALIAS

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Finnish terms borrowed from Latin#ALIASCategory:Finnish terms derived from Latin#ALIAS alias.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑliɑs/, [ˈɑ̝liɑ̝s̠]Category:Finnish 3-syllable words#ALIASCategory:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#ALIAS
• Rhymes: -ɑliɑsCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ɑliɑs#ALIASCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ɑliɑs/3 syllables#ALIAS
• Syllabification^(key): a‧li‧as
• Hyphenation^(key): ali‧as

Interjection

aliasCategory:Finnish lemmas#ALIASCategory:Finnish interjections#ALIASCategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. alias, AKA (used to introduce an alternative name)

   Synonyms: see eli

   • 2020 September 22, Raila Kinnunen, “70 vuotta Kirkan syntymästä: 'Poismennyttä ihmistä voi ajatella ilolla – Lähtijällä on nyt hyvä olla, hänellä ei ole hätää, ei kipua eikä tuskaa'”, in Apu‎:

     Hautakiviä kaatui ja ihmiset talloivat hautoja. Kirill ja pikkuveli Georgij alias Ykä päättivät, että sama ei tapahdu enää ikinä.

     Headstones fell and people trampled on the graves. Kirill and his little brother Georgij alias Ykä decided that such a thing would never happen again.

     Category:Finnish terms with quotations#ALIAS

Noun

aliasCategory:Finnish lemmas#ALIASCategory:Finnish nouns#ALIASCategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. alias

Further reading

• “alias”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Anagrams

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

Etymology

Learned borrowing from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#ALIASCategory:French learned borrowings from Latin#ALIASCategory:French terms derived from Latin#ALIAS aliās (“at another time; elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ljas/Category:French 2-syllable words#ALIASCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#ALIAS

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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  Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#ALIAS

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Adverb

aliasCategory:French lemmas#ALIASCategory:French adverbs#ALIASCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. alias

Noun

alias m (invariable)Category:French lemmas#ALIASCategory:French nouns#ALIASCategory:French countable nouns#ALIASCategory:French indeclinable nouns#ALIASCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:French masculine nouns#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. alias

Anagrams

• salai

Etymology

Learned borrowing from LatinCategory:German terms borrowed from Latin#ALIASCategory:German learned borrowings from Latin#ALIASCategory:German terms derived from Latin#ALIAS alias.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːli̯as/Category:German 2-syllable words#ALIASCategory:German terms with IPA pronunciation#ALIAS

• Audio:

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  Category:German terms with audio pronunciation#ALIAS

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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  Category:German terms with audio pronunciation#ALIAS

Adverb

aliasCategory:German lemmas#ALIASCategory:German adverbs#ALIASCategory:German entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. alias, also known as

   Synonyms: anders, eigentlich, benannt

Further reading

• “alias” in Duden online

Etymology

Borrowed from DutchCategory:Indonesian terms borrowed from Dutch#ALIASCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Dutch#ALIAS alias, from LatinCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Latin#ALIAS alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈlias/ [aˈli.as]Category:Indonesian 3-syllable words#ALIASCategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#ALIAS
• Rhymes: -asCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/as#ALIASCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/as/3 syllables#ALIAS
• Syllabification: a‧li‧as

Adverb

aliasCategory:Indonesian lemmas#ALIASCategory:Indonesian adverbs#ALIASCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. alias

Noun

alias (plural alias-alias)Category:Indonesian lemmas#ALIASCategory:Indonesian nouns#ALIASCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. alias
   1. another name; especially, an assumed name
   2. (computingCategory:id:Computing#ALIAS) a name or string that can replace another name or string
2. (statisticsCategory:id:Statistics#ALIAS) two similar branches of statistical analysis

Further reading

• “alias”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from LatinCategory:Italian terms borrowed from Latin#ALIASCategory:Italian unadapted borrowings from Latin#ALIASCategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#ALIAS alias.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ljas/^[1]Category:Italian 2-syllable words#ALIASCategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#ALIAS
• Rhymes: -aljasCategory:Rhymes:Italian/aljas#ALIASCategory:Rhymes:Italian/aljas/2 syllables#ALIAS
• Hyphenation: à‧lias

Adverb

aliasCategory:Italian lemmas#ALIASCategory:Italian adverbs#ALIASCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. alias

Noun

alias m (invariable)Category:Italian lemmas#ALIASCategory:Italian nouns#ALIASCategory:Italian countable nouns#ALIASCategory:Italian indeclinable nouns#ALIASCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Italian masculine nouns#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. alias

References

Anagrams

• salai

Etymology

Feminine adverbial accusative of aliusCategory:Latin adverbial accusatives#ALIAS or adverbial genitive from an older genitive feminine singular of the same. Compare perperam, bifāriam, and forās as well as pater familiās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.li.aːs]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#ALIASCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#ALIAS
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.li.as]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#ALIASCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#ALIAS

Determiner

aliāsCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#ALIASCategory:Latin determiner forms#ALIASCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. accusative feminine plural of alius

Adverb

aliās (not comparable)Category:Latin lemmas#ALIASCategory:Latin adverbs#ALIASCategory:Latin uncomparable adverbs#ALIASCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. (timeCategory:la:Time#ALIAS) at a time other than the present; at another time, at other times, on another occasion, sometimes
2. (place) at another place, elsewhere

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be inattentive: alias res or aliud agere
    
  • (ambiguous) more of this another time: sed de hoc alias pluribus
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook

Etymology

Learned borrowing from LatinCategory:Polish terms borrowed from Latin#ALIASCategory:Polish learned borrowings from Latin#ALIASCategory:Polish terms derived from Latin#ALIAS aliās.^[1] First attested in the 19 century.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ljas/Category:Polish 2-syllable words#ALIASCategory:Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#ALIAS

• Audio:

  (file)

  Category:Polish terms with audio pronunciation#ALIAS
• Rhymes: -aljasCategory:Rhymes:Polish/aljas#ALIASCategory:Rhymes:Polish/aljas/2 syllables#ALIAS
• Syllabification: a‧lias

Noun

alias m inanCategory:Polish lemmas#ALIASCategory:Polish nouns#ALIASCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Polish masculine nouns#ALIASCategory:Polish inanimate nouns#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. (computingCategory:pl:Computing#ALIAS) alias (abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks)

Conjunction

aliasCategory:Polish lemmas#ALIASCategory:Polish conjunctions#ALIASCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. (literaryCategory:Polish literary terms#ALIAS, with pseudonyms) AKA, alias

   Synonyms: aka, vel

References

Further reading

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

Verb

aliasCategory:Portuguese non-lemma forms#ALIASCategory:Portuguese verb forms#ALIASCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. second-person singular present indicative of aliar

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from Latin#ALIASCategory:Romanian terms derived from Latin#ALIAS alias.

Adverb

aliasCategory:Romanian lemmas#ALIASCategory:Romanian adverbs#ALIASCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. alias

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from Latin#ALIASCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#ALIAS aliās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaljas/ [ˈa.ljas]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#ALIASCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#ALIAS
• Rhymes: -aljasCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aljas#ALIASCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aljas/2 syllables#ALIAS
• Syllabification: a‧lias

Adverb

aliasCategory:Spanish lemmas#ALIASCategory:Spanish adverbs#ALIASCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. also known as; alias

Noun

alias m (plural alias)Category:Spanish lemmas#ALIASCategory:Spanish nouns#ALIASCategory:Spanish countable nouns#ALIASCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Spanish masculine nouns#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. alias

   Synonyms: sobrenombre, apodo, mote

Further reading

• “alias”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Noun

alias nCategory:Swedish lemmas#ALIASCategory:Swedish nouns#ALIASCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Swedish neuter nouns#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS

1. an alias (name assumed, often to hide one's identity)

Adverb

aliasCategory:Swedish lemmas#ALIASCategory:Swedish adverbs#ALIASCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#ALIASCategory:Pages with entries#ALIASCategory:Pages with 13 entries#ALIAS (not comparable)

1. alias (not associated with law, but often somewhat jocular formality)

   Nisse alias Nisse med kniven

   Nisse alias Nisse with-the-knife

   Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#ALIAS

References

• “alias”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “alias”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “alias”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)