Definitions
Wiktionary
- And others; used of things; neuter plural
WordNet 3.0
- adv. and others ('et al.' is used as an abbreviation of `et alii' (masculine plural) or `et aliae' (feminine plural) or `et alia' (neuter plural) when referring to a number of people)
Etymologies
- From Latin et ("and") + alia ("others") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sed cum in manus meas et alia venissent quae posterius latiusque scripsit, vidi quemadmodum etiam illic gratiam nominare sed ambigua generalitate quid sentiret abscondens, gratiae tamen vocabulo frangens invidiam, offensionemque declinans. ”
“It should be left to the sophisms of advocates, whose trade it is, to prove that a defendant is a plaintiff, though dragged into court, torto collo, like Bonaparte's volunteers, into the field in chains, or that a power has been given, because it ought to have been given, et alia talia.”
“Sed cum in manus meas et alia venissent quae posterius latiusque scripsit, vidi quemadmodum etiam illic gratiam nominare sed ambigua generalitate quid sentiret abscondens, gratiae tamen vocabulo frangens invidiam, offensionemque declinans.”
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SCIE - publications
The vocabulary of scientific paper submission
italicise, reference, ISBN, square bracket, running head, printing process, peer review, ASL, retrievable, lexical, publishable, et alia and 188 more...
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Atinlay Asesphray
Latin is, for all intents and purposes, a dead language. Yet its ghost continues to haunt those of us who speak English.
caveat emptor, ad hoc, de facto, carpe diem, et cetera, habeas corpus, non sequitur, ad nauseam, persona non grata, amicus curiae, per se, a priori and 30 more...
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