Other forms: aliases
An alias is a false name a person goes by. Known by an alias, use an alias, an alias for the account.
It differs from a pseudonym by intent: a pseudonym is for publishing and an alias is usually for hiding. In computing an alias is an alternative name pointing at the same thing, which is a neutral technical use. Note that the Latin means at another time or otherwise.
1nounaliasA false name a person goes by.
“The thief used several aliases to open bank accounts.”
2nounalternativeAn alternative name for the same thing.
“Set up an email alias so that messages to both addresses arrive in one inbox.”
alias is a false or alternative name.
Latin alias means otherwise or at another time, from alius, other. Alien and else come from the same otherness.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂el- (other)
Latin
alias — at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise
English, today
alias
From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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