alienus

From alius (“other, another”) + -ēnus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.liˈeː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.liˈɛː.nus]

aliēnus (feminine aliēna, neuter aliēnum, comparative aliēnior, superlative aliēnissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of that which belongs to another person, place, or object—of another, alien, foreign

   Synonyms: aliēnigena, peregrīnus, advena

   • 163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos 1:

     Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.

     I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.11:

     quod alienis cladibus ceciderant animi

     Because their spirit had been decayed by the defeats of the others

2. unfriendly, inimical, hostile, suspicious
3. unfamiliar with something or a stranger to something
4. unsuitable, incongruous, inconsistent, strange
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.219:

     primaque pars huius thalamis aliena reperta est

     And the first part of this [month of June] was discovered to be unsuitable for weddings.

5. (of the body) dead; corrupted; paralyzed
6. (of the mind) insane, mad

First/second-declension adjective, with locative.

• aes aliēnum

• “alienus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “alienus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "alienus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “alienus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid alienum (a) dignitate sua or merely a se ducere
    
  • (ambiguous) the expression is not in accordance with Latin usage: aliquid a consuetudine sermonis latini abhorret, alienum est
    
  • (ambiguous) to have an inclination for a thing: propensum, proclivem esse ad aliquid (opp. alienum, aversum esse, abhorrere ab aliqua re)
    
  • (ambiguous) to incur debts: aes alienum (always in sing.) facere, contrahere
    
  • (ambiguous) to incur debts on a large scale: grande, magnum (opp. exiguum) aes alienum conflare
    
  • (ambiguous) to get into debt: incidere in aes alienum
    
  • (ambiguous) to be in debt: aes alienum habere
    
  • (ambiguous) to pay one's debts: aes alienum dissolvere, exsolvere