adverb
alternīs
alternīs (not comparable)
Meaning
- not comparablealternately, by turns
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
alternīs adv.
alternus, alternately, by turns: rogando alternis suadendoque, now requesting, now persuading, L.: alternis fidens ac diffidens, L.
Origins
From the ablative plural of alternus. Compare vicibus.