alias
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
alias
otherwise called; otherwise known as
别名, 化名; adv. 又被称为, 另外地
Dissection of alias
alias = ali (=alien, foreign; another) + -as (=-us, Latin noun suffix in singular masculine form)
alias = another name for a person or a thing
Now Repeat my Dissection
alias = another name for a person or a thing
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
Repetition is the key to learning.
Now please try to dissect the word into the roots that you know yourself in the box below:
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