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alienum

alienum is a Latin form of alienus, meaning “belonging to another, another's; foreign, strange; unfavorable, hostile”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective or nominative singular neuter adjective or accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 286 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.34.2: Quo facto, ad lacessendum hostem et committendum proelium alienum esse tempus arbitratus suo se loco continuit et brevi tempore intermisso in castra legiones reduxit.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 1.8.9: Unum versum eius, qui ad philosophiam pertinet et ad hanc partem, quae modo fuit in manibus, referam, quo negat fortuita in nostro habenda: Alienum est omne, quicquid optando evenit.

All forms of alienus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.