gives gen. alterius, dat. aliī. list alius among the adjectives that "have the Genitive Singular in -īus and the Dative in -ī in all genders", implying alīus, aliī, but add in notes that "Instead of alīus, alterīus is commonly used" and that "The regular genitive and dative forms (as in bonus) are sometimes found in some of these words: as, genitive and dative feminine, aliae; dative ...
Was suffix -alis derived from alis or alius? Or are they unrelated? Ask Question Asked 1 year, 10 months ago Modified 1 year, 10 months ago
Was suffix -alis derived from alis or alius? Or are they unrelated?
In short, if you want to follow Latin usage, et cetera should be used for things. et al. "Et al.," on the other hand, can be an abbreviation for several phrases using alius: et alii (masculine plural) et aliae (feminine plural) et alia (neuter plural) The first two forms, unlike et cetera, can easily be used for a group of people.
aliae navium alius "..., but so that some ships were scattered into some parts and other ships into other parts." alius aliud petit, one man seeks one thing, another seeks another thing. iussit alios alibi fodere (Liv. 44.33), he ordered different persons to dig in different places. alii alios loco resistebant (B.C. 2.39), some halted in one place, some in another place.
Quintilian, while preferring vir / femina to vir/mulier (at 9.4.23 he comments on viri ac feminae in terms which imply that it had become a fixed phrase: est et alius naturalis ordo, ut 'viros ac feminas', 'diem ac noctem', 'ortum et occasum' dicas potius, quamquam et retrorsum) continues to use mulier emphatically as often as femina (page 244)