Word Study
et alia
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Adverbial et alia has 1 sense
- et alia(r = adv.all) et al, et al., et aliae, et alii - 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); "the data reported by Smith et al."
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