adverb
aliter
aliter (not comparable)
Classical[ˈa.lɪ.tɛr]Ecclesiastical[ˈaː.li.ter]
№ 782 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- not comparableotherwise
sin aliter/minus/secus
otherwise, if not - not comparabledifferently, wrongly, poorly
aliter quam ego velim
In a manner different from what I want - not comparablebadly, negatively
- not comparablemis-
aliter exceptum
misunderstood
In the readers how our graded readers gloss it
otherwise
aliter — in Seneca, ch. XIX
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- res ita (aliter) se habet
- the matter stands so (otherwise).
- hoc longe aliter, secus est
- this is quite another matter.
- res aliter cecidit ac putaveram
- the result has surprised me; I was not prepared for this development.
- aliter sentire ac loqui (aliud sentire, aliud loqui)
- to think one thing, say another; to conceal one's opinions.
ălĭtĕr, v. 2. alius, adv. D.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
aliter adv.
alis, in another manner, otherwise, in any other way, differently. — With atque, ac, quam or ut, otherwise than, different from what: sed aliter atque ostenderam facio: aliter ac nos vellemus: de quo tu aliter sentias atque ego: aliter quam velim: aliter ut dixi.—Non or haud aliter, not otherwise, just as; with quam si, ac si, quam cum, quam, exactly, just as if: Non aliter quam si ruat Karthago, V.: profectus furtim, haud aliter quam si, etc., L.: haud aliter quam cum, etc., O.: Non aliter quam qui lembum subigit, V.—Non aliter nisi, by no other means, on no other condition, not otherwise, except: qui aliter obsistere fato fatetur se non potuisse, nisi, etc.— Without a comparative clause expressed, otherwise, in another manner, in other respects: tu si aliter existimes, nihil errabis: non fuit faciendum aliter: Ergo non aliter poterit dormire? Iu.: aliter haud facile impelli posse, S.: haud aliter Rutulo Ignescunt irae, just so, V.: neque Mordaces aliter diffugiunt sollicitudines, i. e. by other means, H.: fieri aliter non potest, T.: fieri non potuit aliter.—Praegn., otherwise, in the contrary manner: verum aliter evenire multo intellegit, T.: ne aliter quid eveniat, providere, ctherwise, S.: dis aliter visum, V.: aliter curvans bracchia, in the opposite direction, O.: qui aliter fecerit, who will not do that, S. — With esse, to be of a different nature, be differently constituted, be otherwise disposed: ego isti nilo sum aliter ac fui, T.: verum longe aliter est, nihil horum est.—Otherwise, else, in any other case: ius enim semper est quaesitum aequabile: neque enim aliter esset ius: aliter sine populi iussu nulli earum rerum consuli ius est, S.: aliter non viribus ullis Vincere poteris, V. —Like alius, distributively, in one way ... in another: aliter cum tyranno, aliter cum amico vivitur: aliter ab aliis digeruntur, one in one way, another in another: aliter apud alios ordinatis magistratibus, L.
Origins
Adverb from alius (“other”) + -ter (“adverb suffix”).