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not one's own

  • 1 hold one’s own

    اِحْتَفَظَ بموقفه \ hold one’s own: to keep one’s position or strength; not let sb. get control of one: The other team were stronger, but we held our own against them. \ صَابَرَ \ hold one’s own: to keep one’s position or strength; not to let sb. (or some disease, trouble, etc.) get control of one: The other team were stronger, but we held our own against them. \ See Also ثبت (ثَبَتَ)، احتفظ بموقفه (اِحْتَفَظَ بِمَوقِفِه)‏

    Arabic-English glossary > hold one’s own

  • 2 on one’s own

    بِمُفْرَدِه \ alone: by oneself; not with others: He lives all alone. by oneself: etc. alone, without company: He was sitting by himself. He built that house by himself. on one’s own: by oneself; without company: He lives on his own. \ وَحِيدًا \ alone: by oneself; not with others: He lives all alone. by oneself: etc. alone, without company: He was sitting by himself. He built that house by himself. on one’s own: by oneself; without company: He lives on his own.

    Arabic-English glossary > on one’s own

  • 3 hold one’s own

    ثَبَتَ \ hold: to remain in a certain position; not slip or break: If the rope doesn’t hold, you’ll fall!. hold one’s own: to keep one’s position or strength; not let sb. (or some disease, trouble, etc.) get control of one: The other team were stronger, but we held our own against them. \ See Also صمد (صَمَدَ)‏

    Arabic-English glossary > hold one’s own

  • 4 mind one’s own business

    اِهْتَمَّ بِـ \ mind one’s own business: to look after one’s own concerns, not those of other people. \ See Also راعى شؤونَهُ الخاصة \ رَاعَى \ mind one’s own business: to look after one’s own concerns, not those of other people. \ See Also اهْتَمَّ بشؤونِهِ الخاصة \ لا يَتدخَّل في شؤون الآخرين \ mind one’s own business: to look after one’s own concerns, not those of other people.

    Arabic-English glossary > mind one’s own business

  • 5 mind one's own business

    to attend to one's own affairs, not interfering in other people's:

    Go away and mind your own business!

    يَهْتَم في أموره فَقَط، لا يَتَدَخَّل في ما لا يَعْنيه

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  • 6 not to mention

    بِالإِضَافَة إلى (ذلك)‏ \ besides: as well as: I have two brothers besides John.. else: other (together with the first one); besides: Who else came? Did you look anywhere else, or only under the bed? Where else did you look?. in addition to: as well as: He lent me $3, in addition to paying my bill. not to mention: and in addition: They own 10 houses in this street, not to mention those is the next street. further: besides: He said he was sorry and, further, that he would pay for the damage. moreover: besides; (and) also: The man was dead when the police arrived; moreover, he had been dead for four hours.

    Arabic-English glossary > not to mention

  • 7 very own

    مَا يَخُصُّه تمامًا \ very own: completely one’s own; not shared in any way: If you want your very own horse you must pay for it yourself.

    Arabic-English glossary > very own

  • 8 по праву, без посторонней помощи (If someone has a position in their own right , they have earned it or obtained it by themselves and not because of anyone else: She's a millionaire in her own right . -

    General subject: in one's own right

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > по праву, без посторонней помощи (If someone has a position in their own right , they have earned it or obtained it by themselves and not because of anyone else: She's a millionaire in her own right . -

  • 9 идти своей дорогой (not used with neg.)

    Set phrase: go one's own way

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > идти своей дорогой (not used with neg.)

  • 10 идти своим путём (not used with neg.)

    Set phrase: go one's own way

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > идти своим путём (not used with neg.)

  • 11 пойти своей дорогой (not used with neg.)

    Set phrase: go one's own way

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > пойти своей дорогой (not used with neg.)

  • 12 fremd

    Adj.
    1. (unbekannt, ungewohnt) strange; fremde Leute strangers; in fremder Umgebung in unfamiliar surroundings; ich bin hier ( selbst) fremd I’m a stranger here (myself); sich fremd fühlen feel like a stranger, feel very strange; er ist mir fremd he’s a stranger to me, I don’t know him (at all); er ist mir nicht fremd he’s no stranger to me, I know him (well); das ist mir ( nicht) fremd that’s (nothing) new to me; das ist mir alles noch sehr fremd it’s all still very new to me; Eifersucht ist ihm fremd jealousy is unknown ( oder alien) to him; sie tat so fremd she was very distant ( scheu: shy); i-e Stimme klang ganz fremd her voice sounded very strange ( oder different); sich oder einander fremd werden grow apart, become strangers; im Lauf der Jahre wurde er mir immer fremder over the years we drifted further and further apart ( oder we had less and less in common); meine Heimatstadt ist mir fremd geworden I no longer know ( oder recognize) my home town
    2. (ausländisch) Länder, Sprachen etc.: foreign; bes. Pflanzen, Tiere: exotic
    3. (Ggs. eigen) other people’s; fremdes Eigentum other people’s property; fremdes Organ foreign organ; (Transplantat) transplanted organ; fremde Welten other worlds; in fremden Händen in strange hands; unter fremdem Namen under an assumed name, incognito; das ist nicht für fremde Ohren bestimmt this is for your ears only, not a word of this to anyone else; misch dich nicht in fremde Angelegenheiten don’t go poking your nose into other people’s business; sich mit fremden Federn schmücken fig. steal someone else’s thunder
    4. (nicht dazugehörig) extraneous; (von außen) outside...; fremde Hilfe outside help; es ohne fremde Hilfe schaffen manage without help, do it unaided
    * * *
    strange; exotic; foreign; alien; unknown; outlandish
    * * *
    frẹmd [frɛmt]
    adj
    1) (= andern gehörig) someone else's; Bank, Bibliothek, Firma different; (COMM, FIN, POL) outside attr

    ohne fremde Hilfe — without anyone else's/outside help, without help from anyone else/outside

    fremdes Eigentum — someone else's property, property not one's own (form)

    etw geht in fremde Hände über — sth passes into the hands of strangers or into strange hands

    sich mit fremden Federn schmücken — to claim all the glory for oneself

    2) (= fremdländisch) foreign, alien (ESP ADMIN, POL)
    3) (= andersartig) strange; Planeten other; Welt different
    4) (= unvertraut) strange

    es ist mir fremd, wie... — I don't understand how...

    das ist eine mir fremde Seite seines Wesens — that is a side of his character which I haven't seen before

    ich bin hier/in London fremd — I'm a stranger here/to London

    meine Heimat ist mir fremd geworden — I've become a stranger in my own country, my own country has become quite foreign or alien to me

    sich fremd fühlen — to feel alien, to feel like a stranger

    fremd tun — to be reserved

    * * *
    1) (foreign: alien customs.) alien
    2) ((with to) not naturally part of: Anger was foreign to her nature.) foreign
    4) (not known, seen etc before; unfamiliar or foreign: What would you do if you found a strange man in your house?; Whenever you're in a strange country, you should take the opportunity of learning the language.) strange
    * * *
    [frɛmt]
    1. (anderen gehörig) somebody else's
    ich schlafe nicht gern in \fremden Betten I don't like sleeping in strange beds
    \fremdes Eigentum somebody else's property, property of another form; s.a. Ohr
    2. (fremdländisch) Gegend, Länder, Sitten foreign; bes ADMIN alien
    3. (unbekannt) strange, unfamiliar, alien
    ich bin hier \fremd I'm not from round here [or these parts]
    * * *
    1) strange; foreign <country, government, customs, language>
    2) nicht präd. (nicht eigen) other people's; of others postpos.
    3) (unbekannt) strange; strange, unknown < surroundings>

    einander fremd werden — become estranged; grow apart

    * * *
    fremd adj
    1. (unbekannt, ungewohnt) strange;
    fremde Leute strangers;
    in fremder Umgebung in unfamiliar surroundings;
    ich bin hier (selbst) fremd I’m a stranger here (myself);
    sich fremd fühlen feel like a stranger, feel very strange;
    er ist mir fremd he’s a stranger to me, I don’t know him (at all);
    er ist mir nicht fremd he’s no stranger to me, I know him (well);
    das ist mir (nicht) fremd that’s (nothing) new to me;
    das ist mir alles noch sehr fremd it’s all still very new to me;
    Eifersucht ist ihm fremd jealousy is unknown ( oder alien) to him;
    sie tat so fremd she was very distant ( scheu: shy);
    i-e Stimme klang ganz fremd her voice sounded very strange ( oder different);
    einander fremd werden grow apart, become strangers;
    im Lauf der Jahre wurde er mir immer fremder over the years we drifted further and further apart ( oder we had less and less in common);
    meine Heimatstadt ist mir fremd geworden I no longer know ( oder recognize) my home town
    2. (ausländisch) Länder, Sprachen etc: foreign; besonders Pflanzen, Tiere: exotic
    3. (Ggs eigen) other people’s;
    fremdes Eigentum other people’s property;
    fremdes Organ foreign organ; (Transplantat) transplanted organ;
    fremde Welten other worlds;
    in fremden Händen in strange hands;
    unter fremdem Namen under an assumed name, incognito;
    das ist nicht für fremde Ohren bestimmt this is for your ears only, not a word of this to anyone else;
    misch dich nicht in fremde Angelegenheiten don’t go poking your nose into other people’s business;
    sich mit fremden Federn schmücken fig steal someone else’s thunder
    4. (nicht dazugehörig) extraneous; (von außen) outside …;
    fremde Hilfe outside help;
    es ohne fremde Hilfe schaffen manage without help, do it unaided
    …fremd im adj
    1. (Ggs …nah) foreign ( oder alien) to …;
    kulturfremd foreign to one’s culture;
    menschenfremd out of touch with real people;
    realitätsfremd out of touch with reality
    2. (nicht dazugehörig) unrelated to …;
    berufsfremd unrelated to one’s profession;
    branchenfremd from another sector (of industry), new to the industry;
    vereinsfremd not belonging to the club; (Person) auch who is a non-member;
    verlagsfremd not on this publisher’s list, from another publisher
    * * *
    1) strange; foreign <country, government, customs, language>
    2) nicht präd. (nicht eigen) other people's; of others postpos.
    3) (unbekannt) strange; strange, unknown < surroundings>

    einander fremd werden — become estranged; grow apart

    * * *
    adj.
    alien adj.
    extrinsic adj.
    foreign adj.
    strange adj.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > fremd

  • 13 adrogo

    ar-rŏgo ( adr-, Fleck., B. and K., Dietsch, Halm, Weissenb.; arr-, Holder, Dinter; Keller uses both forms), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.
    I.
    Jurid. and polit. t. t.
    A.
    To ask or inquire of one, to question: Venus haec volo adroget te, * Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 45; cf. Dig. 1, 7, 2.—
    * B.
    Alicui, t. t., to add one officer to another, to associate with, place by the side of:

    cui consuli dictatorem adrogari haud satis decorum visum est patribus,

    Liv. 7, 25, 11.—
    C.
    To take a homo sui juris in the place of a child, to adopt (v. arrogatio), Gell. 5, 19, 4; cf. Dig. 1, 7, 1; 1, 7, 2; 1, 7, 22 al.—Hence,
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    To appropriate that which does not belong to one, to claim as one's own, to arrogate to one's self, to assume:

    quamquam mihi non sumo tantum, judices, neque adrogo, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Planc. 1:

    non enim mihi tantum derogo, tametsi nihil adrogo, ut, etc.,

    id. Rosc. Am. 32:

    sapientiam sibi adrogare,

    id. Brut. 85, 292: ego tantum tibi tribuo, [p. 166] quantum mihi fortasse arrogo, id. Fam. 4, 1 fin.:

    Quod ex alienā virtute sibi adrogant, id mihi ex meā non concedunt,

    Sall. J. 85, 25:

    Nihil adrogabo mihi nobilitatis aut modestiae,

    Tac. H. 1, 30:

    Nec sibi cenarum quivis temere arroget artem,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 35.—
    B.
    Poet.: alicui aliquid, to adjudge something to another as his own, to confer upon or procure for (opp. abrogare):

    Scire velim, chartis pretium quotus adroget annus,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 35:

    decus arrogavit,

    id. C. 4, 14, 40:

    nihil non arroget armis,

    adjudge every thing to arms, think every thing must yield to, id. A. P. 121.— Hence, arrŏgans ( adr-), antis, P. a., acc. to II. A., appropriating something not one's own; hence, assuming, arrogant (syn.: superbus, insolens, ferox).
    A.
    Lit.:

    si essent adrogantes, non possem ferre fastidium,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9:

    Induciomarus iste minax atque adrogans,

    id. Font. 12; id. Verr. 2, 1, 60:

    ne arrogans in praeripiendo populi beneficio videretur,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 1:

    pigritia adrogantior,

    Quint. 12, 3, 12:

    adrogantissima persuasio,

    id. Decl. 8, 9.—
    B.
    As a consequence of assumption, haughty, proud, overbearing, insolent (cf. arrogantia, I. B.):

    proponit inania mihi nobilitatis, hoc est hominum adrogantium nomina,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 6:

    de se persuasio,

    Quint. 2, 4, 16:

    crudelitas adrogans,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 4, 2:

    dictum,

    id. Sull. 8, 25:

    consilium,

    id. de Or. 2, 39, 165:

    moderatio,

    Tac. A. 1, 3:

    adversus superiores tristi adulatione, adrogans minoribus, inter pares difficilis,

    id. ib. 11, 21:

    omnem adrogantem humilia,

    Vulg. Job, 40, 6:

    abominatio Domino est omnis adrogans,

    ib. Prov. 16, 5:

    beatos dicimus adrogantes,

    ib. Mal. 3, 15.— Adv.: arrŏgan-ter ( adr-), with assumption, arrogantly, haughtily, proudly, insolently:

    aliquid dicere,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 83, 339; id. Off. 1, 1, 2; Quint. 4, 2, 86:

    scribere,

    Cic. Att. 6, 1:

    aliquid praejudicare,

    id. ad Brut. 1, 4:

    petere,

    id. Lig. 10, 30:

    adsentire,

    id. Inv. 2, 3, 10:

    facere,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 40: adversarios sustinere, D. Brutus ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 4: ingredi, * Vulg. Soph. 1, 9:

    consulere in deditos,

    Tac. Agr. 16.— Comp.:

    multo adrogantius factum,

    Suet. Caes. 79:

    insolentius et adrogantius uti gloriā artis,

    Plin. 36, 10, 36, § 71:

    adrogantius et elatius praefari,

    Gell. 9, 15.— Sup., Oros. 7, 25; 7, 35.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > adrogo

  • 14 arrogo

    ar-rŏgo ( adr-, Fleck., B. and K., Dietsch, Halm, Weissenb.; arr-, Holder, Dinter; Keller uses both forms), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.
    I.
    Jurid. and polit. t. t.
    A.
    To ask or inquire of one, to question: Venus haec volo adroget te, * Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 45; cf. Dig. 1, 7, 2.—
    * B.
    Alicui, t. t., to add one officer to another, to associate with, place by the side of:

    cui consuli dictatorem adrogari haud satis decorum visum est patribus,

    Liv. 7, 25, 11.—
    C.
    To take a homo sui juris in the place of a child, to adopt (v. arrogatio), Gell. 5, 19, 4; cf. Dig. 1, 7, 1; 1, 7, 2; 1, 7, 22 al.—Hence,
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    To appropriate that which does not belong to one, to claim as one's own, to arrogate to one's self, to assume:

    quamquam mihi non sumo tantum, judices, neque adrogo, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Planc. 1:

    non enim mihi tantum derogo, tametsi nihil adrogo, ut, etc.,

    id. Rosc. Am. 32:

    sapientiam sibi adrogare,

    id. Brut. 85, 292: ego tantum tibi tribuo, [p. 166] quantum mihi fortasse arrogo, id. Fam. 4, 1 fin.:

    Quod ex alienā virtute sibi adrogant, id mihi ex meā non concedunt,

    Sall. J. 85, 25:

    Nihil adrogabo mihi nobilitatis aut modestiae,

    Tac. H. 1, 30:

    Nec sibi cenarum quivis temere arroget artem,

    Hor. S. 2, 4, 35.—
    B.
    Poet.: alicui aliquid, to adjudge something to another as his own, to confer upon or procure for (opp. abrogare):

    Scire velim, chartis pretium quotus adroget annus,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 35:

    decus arrogavit,

    id. C. 4, 14, 40:

    nihil non arroget armis,

    adjudge every thing to arms, think every thing must yield to, id. A. P. 121.— Hence, arrŏgans ( adr-), antis, P. a., acc. to II. A., appropriating something not one's own; hence, assuming, arrogant (syn.: superbus, insolens, ferox).
    A.
    Lit.:

    si essent adrogantes, non possem ferre fastidium,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 9:

    Induciomarus iste minax atque adrogans,

    id. Font. 12; id. Verr. 2, 1, 60:

    ne arrogans in praeripiendo populi beneficio videretur,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 1:

    pigritia adrogantior,

    Quint. 12, 3, 12:

    adrogantissima persuasio,

    id. Decl. 8, 9.—
    B.
    As a consequence of assumption, haughty, proud, overbearing, insolent (cf. arrogantia, I. B.):

    proponit inania mihi nobilitatis, hoc est hominum adrogantium nomina,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 6:

    de se persuasio,

    Quint. 2, 4, 16:

    crudelitas adrogans,

    Cic. Fam. 5, 4, 2:

    dictum,

    id. Sull. 8, 25:

    consilium,

    id. de Or. 2, 39, 165:

    moderatio,

    Tac. A. 1, 3:

    adversus superiores tristi adulatione, adrogans minoribus, inter pares difficilis,

    id. ib. 11, 21:

    omnem adrogantem humilia,

    Vulg. Job, 40, 6:

    abominatio Domino est omnis adrogans,

    ib. Prov. 16, 5:

    beatos dicimus adrogantes,

    ib. Mal. 3, 15.— Adv.: arrŏgan-ter ( adr-), with assumption, arrogantly, haughtily, proudly, insolently:

    aliquid dicere,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 83, 339; id. Off. 1, 1, 2; Quint. 4, 2, 86:

    scribere,

    Cic. Att. 6, 1:

    aliquid praejudicare,

    id. ad Brut. 1, 4:

    petere,

    id. Lig. 10, 30:

    adsentire,

    id. Inv. 2, 3, 10:

    facere,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 40: adversarios sustinere, D. Brutus ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 4: ingredi, * Vulg. Soph. 1, 9:

    consulere in deditos,

    Tac. Agr. 16.— Comp.:

    multo adrogantius factum,

    Suet. Caes. 79:

    insolentius et adrogantius uti gloriā artis,

    Plin. 36, 10, 36, § 71:

    adrogantius et elatius praefari,

    Gell. 9, 15.— Sup., Oros. 7, 25; 7, 35.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > arrogo

  • 15 अव्यापार _avyāpāra

    अव्यापार a. Having no work, unemployed.
    -रः 1 Cessation from work, state of being unemployed.
    -2 A business not practised or understood.
    -3 Not one's own business; अव्यापारेषु व्यापारं कृ to meddle with affairs not one's own (which do not concern one). cf. अव्यापारेषु व्यापारं यो नरः कर्तुमिच्छति Pt.1.21.

    Sanskrit-English dictionary > अव्यापार _avyāpāra

  • 16 alienum

    ălĭēnus, a, um [2. alius].
    I.
    Adj.
    A.
    In gen., that belongs to another person, place, object, etc., not one's own, another's, of another, foreign, alien (opp. suus): NEVE. ALIENAM. SEGETEM. PELLEXERIS., Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 28, 2, and Serv. ad Verg. E. 8, 99: plus ex alieno jecore sapiunt quam ex suo, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 57; Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 111; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 88, and Lind. ib. 2, 3, 3: quom sciet alienum puerum ( the child of another) tolli pro suo, Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 61:

    in aedīs inruit Alienas,

    id. Ad. 1, 2, 9; id. And. 1, 1, 125:

    alienae partes anni,

    Lucr. 1, 182; so Verg. G. 2, 149:

    pecuniis alienis locupletari,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

    cura rerum alienarum,

    id. Off. 1, 9, 30; 2, 23, 83:

    alienos mores ad suos referre,

    Nep. Epam. 1, 1:

    in altissimo gradu alienis opibus poni,

    Cic. Sest. 20:

    semper regibus aliena virtus formidolosa est,

    Sall. C. 7, 2:

    amissis bonis alienas opes exspectare,

    id. ib. 58. 10 Herz.:

    aliena mulier,

    another man's wife, Cic. Cael. 37:

    mulier alieni viri sermonibus assuefacta,

    of another woman's husband, Liv. 1, 46:

    virtutem et bonum alienum oderunt,

    id. 35, 43:

    alienis pedibus ambulamus, alienis oculis agnoscimus, alienā memoriā salutamus, alienā operā vivimus,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 19:

    oportet enim omnia aut ad alienum arbitrium aut ad suum facere,

    Plin. Ep. 6, 14; so Suet. Claud. 2:

    alienum cursum alienumque rectorem, velut captā nave, sequi,

    Plin. Pan. 82, 3; Tac. A. 15, 1 fin.:

    pudicitiae neque suae neque alienae pepercit,

    Suet. Calig. 36:

    epistolas orationesque et edicta alieno formabat ingenio,

    i. e. caused to be written by another, id. Dom. 20:

    te conjux aliena capit,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 46; 1, 1, 110; so id. ib. 1, 3, 116:

    vulnus,

    intended for another, Verg. A. 10, 781: aliena [p. 85] cornua, of Actæon transformed into a stag, Ov. M. 3, 139:

    alieno Marte pugnabant, sc. equites,

    i. e. without horses, as footmen, Liv. 3, 62: aes alienum, lit. another's money; hence, in reference to him who has it, a debt; cf. aes. So also:

    aliena nomina,

    debts in others' names, debts contracted by others, Sall. C. 35, 3.—
    B.
    Esp.
    1.
    In reference to relationship or friendship, not belonging to one, alien from, not related or allied, not friendly, inimical, strange, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 43:

    alienus est ab nostrā familiā,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 28; id. Heaut. 5, 4, 6 Ruhnk.:

    multi ex finibus suis egressi se suaque omnia alienissimis crediderunt,

    to utter strangers, Caes. B. G. 6, 31:

    non alienus sanguine regibus,

    Liv. 29, 29; Vell. 2, 76.—

    Hence alienus and propinquus are antith.,

    Cic. Lael. 5, 19:

    ut neque amicis neque etiam alienioribus desim,

    id. Fam. 1, 9 Manut.:

    ut tuum factum alieni hominis, meum vero conjunctissimi et amicissimi esse videatur,

    id. ib. 3, 6.—
    2.
    Trop.: alienum esse in or ab aliquā re, to be a stranger to a thing, i. e. not to be versed in or familiar with, not to understand:

    in physicis Epicurus totus est alienus,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 17:

    homo non alienus a litteris,

    not a stranger to, not unversed in, id. Verr. 2, 2, 26.—
    3.
    Foreign to a thing, i. e. not suited to it, unsuitable, incongruous, inadequate, inconsistent, unseasonable, inapposite, different from (opp. aptus); constr. with gen., dat., abl., and ab; cf. Burm. ad Ov. F. 1, 4; Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 5; Spald. ad Quint. 6, 3, 33; Zumpt, Gr. § 384.
    (α).
    With gen.:

    pacis (deorum),

    Lucr. 6, 69:

    salutis,

    id. 3, 832:

    aliarum rerum,

    id. 6, 1064:

    dignitatis alicujus,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 4, 11:

    neque aliena consili (sc. domus D. Bruti),

    convenient for consultation, Sall. C. 40, 5 Kritz al.—
    (β).
    With dat.:

    quod illi causae maxime est alienum,

    Cic. Caecin. 9, 24: arti oratoriae, Quint. prooem. 5; 4, 2, 62; Sen. Q. N. 4 praef.—
    (γ).
    With abl.:

    neque hoc dii alienum ducunt majestate suā,

    Cic. Div. 1, 38, 83:

    homine alienissimum,

    id. Off. 1, 13, 41:

    dignitate imperii,

    id. Prov. Cons. 8, 18:

    amicitiā,

    id. Fam. 11, 27:

    existimatione meā,

    id. Att. 6, 1:

    domus magis his aliena malis,

    farther from, Hor. S. 1, 9, 50:

    loco, tempore,

    Quint. 6, 3, 33.—
    (δ).
    With ab:

    alienum a vitā meā,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 21: a dignitate rei publicae, Tib. Gracch. ap. Gell. 7, 19, 7:

    a sapiente,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 43, 132:

    a dignitate,

    id. Fam. 4, 7:

    navigationis labor alienus non ab aetate solum nostrā, verum etiam a dignitate,

    id. Att. 16, 3.—
    (ε).
    With inf. or clause as subject:

    nec aptius est quidquam ad opes tuendas quam diligi, nec alienius quam timeri,

    Cic. Off. 2, 7, 23:

    non alienum videtur, quale praemium Miltiadi sit tributum, docere,

    Nep. Milt. 6, 1.—
    4.
    Averse, hostile, unfriendly, unfavorable to:

    illum alieno animo a nobis esse res ipsa indicat,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 40; Cic. Deiot. 9, 24:

    a Pyrrho non nimis alienos animos habemus,

    id. Lael. 8 fin.:

    sin a me est alienior,

    id. Fam. 2, 17:

    ex alienissimis amicissimos reddere,

    id. ib. 15, 4 al.:

    Muciani animus nec Vespasiano alienus,

    Tac. H. 2, 74.—Rar. transf. to things; as in the histt., alienus locus, a place or ground unfavorable for an engagement, disadvantageous (opp. suus or opportunus; cf.

    Gron. Obs. 4, 17, 275): alieno loco proelium committunt,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 15:

    alienissimo sibi loco contra opportunissimo hostibus conflixit,

    Nep. Them. 4, 5 Brem.—So of time unfitting, inconvenient, unfavorable, Varr. R. R. 3, 16:

    ad judicium corrumpendum tempus alienum,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 5; id. Caecin. 67:

    vir egregius alienissimo rei publicae tempore exstinctus,

    id. Brut. 1; id. Fam. 15, 14.—Of other things: alienum ( dangerous, perilous, hurtful) suis rationibus, Sall. C. 56, 5; Cels. 4, 5.—
    5.
    In medic. lang.
    a.
    Of the body, dead, corrupted, paralyzed (cf. alieno, II. B. 2.), Scrib. Comp. 201.—
    b.
    Of the mind, insane, mad (cf. alieno and alienatio):

    Neque solum illis aliena mens erat, qui conscii conjurationis fuerant,

    Sall. C. 37, 1 Herz.—
    II.
    Subst.
    1.
    ălĭēnus, i, m., a stranger.
    a.
    One not belonging to one's house, family, or country:

    apud me cenant alieni novem,

    Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 21:

    ut non ejectus ad alienos, sed invitatus ad tuos īsse videaris,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 23:

    quas copias proximis suppeditari aequius est, eas transferunt ad alienos,

    id. Off. 1, 14: cives potiores quam peregrini, propinqui quam alieni, id. Am. 5, 19:

    quasi ad alienos durius loquebatur,

    Vulg. Gen. 42, 7:

    a filiis suis an ab alienis?

    ib. Matt. 17, 24:

    cives potiores quam peregrini, propinqui quam alieni,

    Cic. Lael. 5:

    quod alieno testimonium redderem, in eo non fraudabo avum meum,

    Vell. 2, 76.—
    b.
    One not related to a person or thing:

    in longinquos, in propinquos, in alienos, in suos irruebat,

    Cic. Mil. 28, 76:

    vel alienissimus rusticae vitae, naturae benignitatem miretur,

    Col. 3, 21, 3.—
    2.
    ălĭēnum, i, n., the property of a stranger:

    Haec erunt vilici officia: alieno manum abstineant, etc.,

    Cato, R. R. 5, 1:

    alieno abstinuit,

    Suet. Tit. 7:

    ex alieno largiri,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 8; so,

    de alieno largiri,

    Just. 36, 3, 9:

    alieni appetens, sui profugus,

    Sall. C. 5; Liv. 5, 5:

    in aliena aedificium exstruere,

    Cic. Mil. 27, 74 (cf.:

    in alieno solo aedificare,

    Dig. 41, 1, 7).— Plur.,
    a.
    The property of a stranger:

    quid est aliud aliis sua eripere, aliis dare aliena?

    Cic. Off. 2, 23; Liv. 30, 30: aliena pervadere, a foreign (in opp. to the Roman) province, Amm. 23, 1.—
    b.
    The affairs or interests of strangers: Men. Chreme, tantumue ab re tuast oti tibi, aliena ut cures, ea, quae nihil ad te attinent. Chrem. Homo sum;

    humani nihil a me alienum puto,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 23:

    aliena ut melius videant quam sua,

    id. ib. 3, 1, 95.—
    c.
    Things strange, foreign, not belonging to the matter in hand:

    Quod si hominibus bonarum rerum tanta cura esset, quanto studio aliena ac nihil profutura multumque etiam periculosa petunt, etc.,

    Sall. J. 1, 5; hence, aliena loqui, to talk strangely, wildly, like a crazy person:

    Quin etiam, sic me dicunt aliena locutum, Ut foret amenti nomen in ore tuum,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 19:

    interdum in accessione aegros desipere et aliena loqui,

    Cels. 3, 18 (v. alieniloquium).
    ► Comp. rare, but sup. very freq.; no adv. in use.

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  • 17 alienus

    ălĭēnus, a, um [2. alius].
    I.
    Adj.
    A.
    In gen., that belongs to another person, place, object, etc., not one's own, another's, of another, foreign, alien (opp. suus): NEVE. ALIENAM. SEGETEM. PELLEXERIS., Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 28, 2, and Serv. ad Verg. E. 8, 99: plus ex alieno jecore sapiunt quam ex suo, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 57; Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 111; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 88, and Lind. ib. 2, 3, 3: quom sciet alienum puerum ( the child of another) tolli pro suo, Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 61:

    in aedīs inruit Alienas,

    id. Ad. 1, 2, 9; id. And. 1, 1, 125:

    alienae partes anni,

    Lucr. 1, 182; so Verg. G. 2, 149:

    pecuniis alienis locupletari,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 47, 137:

    cura rerum alienarum,

    id. Off. 1, 9, 30; 2, 23, 83:

    alienos mores ad suos referre,

    Nep. Epam. 1, 1:

    in altissimo gradu alienis opibus poni,

    Cic. Sest. 20:

    semper regibus aliena virtus formidolosa est,

    Sall. C. 7, 2:

    amissis bonis alienas opes exspectare,

    id. ib. 58. 10 Herz.:

    aliena mulier,

    another man's wife, Cic. Cael. 37:

    mulier alieni viri sermonibus assuefacta,

    of another woman's husband, Liv. 1, 46:

    virtutem et bonum alienum oderunt,

    id. 35, 43:

    alienis pedibus ambulamus, alienis oculis agnoscimus, alienā memoriā salutamus, alienā operā vivimus,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 19:

    oportet enim omnia aut ad alienum arbitrium aut ad suum facere,

    Plin. Ep. 6, 14; so Suet. Claud. 2:

    alienum cursum alienumque rectorem, velut captā nave, sequi,

    Plin. Pan. 82, 3; Tac. A. 15, 1 fin.:

    pudicitiae neque suae neque alienae pepercit,

    Suet. Calig. 36:

    epistolas orationesque et edicta alieno formabat ingenio,

    i. e. caused to be written by another, id. Dom. 20:

    te conjux aliena capit,

    Hor. S. 2, 7, 46; 1, 1, 110; so id. ib. 1, 3, 116:

    vulnus,

    intended for another, Verg. A. 10, 781: aliena [p. 85] cornua, of Actæon transformed into a stag, Ov. M. 3, 139:

    alieno Marte pugnabant, sc. equites,

    i. e. without horses, as footmen, Liv. 3, 62: aes alienum, lit. another's money; hence, in reference to him who has it, a debt; cf. aes. So also:

    aliena nomina,

    debts in others' names, debts contracted by others, Sall. C. 35, 3.—
    B.
    Esp.
    1.
    In reference to relationship or friendship, not belonging to one, alien from, not related or allied, not friendly, inimical, strange, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 43:

    alienus est ab nostrā familiā,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 28; id. Heaut. 5, 4, 6 Ruhnk.:

    multi ex finibus suis egressi se suaque omnia alienissimis crediderunt,

    to utter strangers, Caes. B. G. 6, 31:

    non alienus sanguine regibus,

    Liv. 29, 29; Vell. 2, 76.—

    Hence alienus and propinquus are antith.,

    Cic. Lael. 5, 19:

    ut neque amicis neque etiam alienioribus desim,

    id. Fam. 1, 9 Manut.:

    ut tuum factum alieni hominis, meum vero conjunctissimi et amicissimi esse videatur,

    id. ib. 3, 6.—
    2.
    Trop.: alienum esse in or ab aliquā re, to be a stranger to a thing, i. e. not to be versed in or familiar with, not to understand:

    in physicis Epicurus totus est alienus,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 17:

    homo non alienus a litteris,

    not a stranger to, not unversed in, id. Verr. 2, 2, 26.—
    3.
    Foreign to a thing, i. e. not suited to it, unsuitable, incongruous, inadequate, inconsistent, unseasonable, inapposite, different from (opp. aptus); constr. with gen., dat., abl., and ab; cf. Burm. ad Ov. F. 1, 4; Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 5; Spald. ad Quint. 6, 3, 33; Zumpt, Gr. § 384.
    (α).
    With gen.:

    pacis (deorum),

    Lucr. 6, 69:

    salutis,

    id. 3, 832:

    aliarum rerum,

    id. 6, 1064:

    dignitatis alicujus,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 4, 11:

    neque aliena consili (sc. domus D. Bruti),

    convenient for consultation, Sall. C. 40, 5 Kritz al.—
    (β).
    With dat.:

    quod illi causae maxime est alienum,

    Cic. Caecin. 9, 24: arti oratoriae, Quint. prooem. 5; 4, 2, 62; Sen. Q. N. 4 praef.—
    (γ).
    With abl.:

    neque hoc dii alienum ducunt majestate suā,

    Cic. Div. 1, 38, 83:

    homine alienissimum,

    id. Off. 1, 13, 41:

    dignitate imperii,

    id. Prov. Cons. 8, 18:

    amicitiā,

    id. Fam. 11, 27:

    existimatione meā,

    id. Att. 6, 1:

    domus magis his aliena malis,

    farther from, Hor. S. 1, 9, 50:

    loco, tempore,

    Quint. 6, 3, 33.—
    (δ).
    With ab:

    alienum a vitā meā,

    Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 21: a dignitate rei publicae, Tib. Gracch. ap. Gell. 7, 19, 7:

    a sapiente,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 43, 132:

    a dignitate,

    id. Fam. 4, 7:

    navigationis labor alienus non ab aetate solum nostrā, verum etiam a dignitate,

    id. Att. 16, 3.—
    (ε).
    With inf. or clause as subject:

    nec aptius est quidquam ad opes tuendas quam diligi, nec alienius quam timeri,

    Cic. Off. 2, 7, 23:

    non alienum videtur, quale praemium Miltiadi sit tributum, docere,

    Nep. Milt. 6, 1.—
    4.
    Averse, hostile, unfriendly, unfavorable to:

    illum alieno animo a nobis esse res ipsa indicat,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 40; Cic. Deiot. 9, 24:

    a Pyrrho non nimis alienos animos habemus,

    id. Lael. 8 fin.:

    sin a me est alienior,

    id. Fam. 2, 17:

    ex alienissimis amicissimos reddere,

    id. ib. 15, 4 al.:

    Muciani animus nec Vespasiano alienus,

    Tac. H. 2, 74.—Rar. transf. to things; as in the histt., alienus locus, a place or ground unfavorable for an engagement, disadvantageous (opp. suus or opportunus; cf.

    Gron. Obs. 4, 17, 275): alieno loco proelium committunt,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 15:

    alienissimo sibi loco contra opportunissimo hostibus conflixit,

    Nep. Them. 4, 5 Brem.—So of time unfitting, inconvenient, unfavorable, Varr. R. R. 3, 16:

    ad judicium corrumpendum tempus alienum,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 5; id. Caecin. 67:

    vir egregius alienissimo rei publicae tempore exstinctus,

    id. Brut. 1; id. Fam. 15, 14.—Of other things: alienum ( dangerous, perilous, hurtful) suis rationibus, Sall. C. 56, 5; Cels. 4, 5.—
    5.
    In medic. lang.
    a.
    Of the body, dead, corrupted, paralyzed (cf. alieno, II. B. 2.), Scrib. Comp. 201.—
    b.
    Of the mind, insane, mad (cf. alieno and alienatio):

    Neque solum illis aliena mens erat, qui conscii conjurationis fuerant,

    Sall. C. 37, 1 Herz.—
    II.
    Subst.
    1.
    ălĭēnus, i, m., a stranger.
    a.
    One not belonging to one's house, family, or country:

    apud me cenant alieni novem,

    Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 21:

    ut non ejectus ad alienos, sed invitatus ad tuos īsse videaris,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 23:

    quas copias proximis suppeditari aequius est, eas transferunt ad alienos,

    id. Off. 1, 14: cives potiores quam peregrini, propinqui quam alieni, id. Am. 5, 19:

    quasi ad alienos durius loquebatur,

    Vulg. Gen. 42, 7:

    a filiis suis an ab alienis?

    ib. Matt. 17, 24:

    cives potiores quam peregrini, propinqui quam alieni,

    Cic. Lael. 5:

    quod alieno testimonium redderem, in eo non fraudabo avum meum,

    Vell. 2, 76.—
    b.
    One not related to a person or thing:

    in longinquos, in propinquos, in alienos, in suos irruebat,

    Cic. Mil. 28, 76:

    vel alienissimus rusticae vitae, naturae benignitatem miretur,

    Col. 3, 21, 3.—
    2.
    ălĭēnum, i, n., the property of a stranger:

    Haec erunt vilici officia: alieno manum abstineant, etc.,

    Cato, R. R. 5, 1:

    alieno abstinuit,

    Suet. Tit. 7:

    ex alieno largiri,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 8; so,

    de alieno largiri,

    Just. 36, 3, 9:

    alieni appetens, sui profugus,

    Sall. C. 5; Liv. 5, 5:

    in aliena aedificium exstruere,

    Cic. Mil. 27, 74 (cf.:

    in alieno solo aedificare,

    Dig. 41, 1, 7).— Plur.,
    a.
    The property of a stranger:

    quid est aliud aliis sua eripere, aliis dare aliena?

    Cic. Off. 2, 23; Liv. 30, 30: aliena pervadere, a foreign (in opp. to the Roman) province, Amm. 23, 1.—
    b.
    The affairs or interests of strangers: Men. Chreme, tantumue ab re tuast oti tibi, aliena ut cures, ea, quae nihil ad te attinent. Chrem. Homo sum;

    humani nihil a me alienum puto,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 23:

    aliena ut melius videant quam sua,

    id. ib. 3, 1, 95.—
    c.
    Things strange, foreign, not belonging to the matter in hand:

    Quod si hominibus bonarum rerum tanta cura esset, quanto studio aliena ac nihil profutura multumque etiam periculosa petunt, etc.,

    Sall. J. 1, 5; hence, aliena loqui, to talk strangely, wildly, like a crazy person:

    Quin etiam, sic me dicunt aliena locutum, Ut foret amenti nomen in ore tuum,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 19:

    interdum in accessione aegros desipere et aliena loqui,

    Cels. 3, 18 (v. alieniloquium).
    ► Comp. rare, but sup. very freq.; no adv. in use.

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  • 18 Г-310

    HE своим гблосом кричать, орать, вопить, голосить и т. п. coll NPmstrum Invar adv (intensif) fixed WO
    (to yell, scream etc) very loudly, hysterically ( usu. because of shock, fear, nervousness etc): in a voice not one's own
    in a voice that could no longer be recognized as one's own in an unnatural (a wild) voice.
    ...Ночью, вопя от жути не своим голосом, с керосиновым факелом за спиною, носился он (пожарный вестовой) по городу (Федин 1)....At night, wailing with terror in a voice not his own, he (the fire warden) had rushed about the town with a kerosene torch on his back (1a).
    ...Он вскочил... и не своим голосом закричал: «Раззорю!» (Салтыков-Щедрин 2)....He jumped up and...screamed in a voice that could no longer be recognized as his own-"I'll ruin you!" (2a).
    И с самим человеком творилось столько непонятного: живёт-живет человек долго и хорошо -ничего, да вдруг заговорит такое непутное, или учнёт (sub-stand = начнёт) кричать на своим голосом... (Гончаров 1). And so many mysterious things happened to people, too, a man might live for years happily without mishap, and all of a sudden he would begin to talk strangely or scream in a wild voice... (1a).

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  • 19 не своим голосом

    • НЕ СВОИМ ГОЛОСОМ кричать, орать, вопить, голосить и т.п. coll
    [NPmstrum; Invar; adv (intensif); fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ (to yell, scream etc) very loudly, hysterically (usu. because of shock, fear, nervousness etc):
    - in an unnatural (a wild) voice.
         ♦...Ночью, вопя от жути не своим голосом, с керосиновым факелом за спиною, носился он [пожарный вестовой] по городу (Федин 1)....At night, wailing with terror in a voice not his own, he [the fire warden] had rushed about the town with a kerosene torch on his back (1a).
         ♦...Он вскочил... и не своим голосом закричал: "Раззорю!" (Салтыков-Щедрин 2)....He jumped up and...screamed in a voice that could no longer be recognized as his own-"I'll ruin you!" (2a).
         ♦ И с самим человеком творилось столько непонятного: живёт-живёт человек долго и хорошо - ничего, да вдруг заговорит такое непутное, или учнёт [substand = начнёт] кричать на своим голосом... (Гончаров 1). And so many mysterious things happened to people, too; a man might live for years happily without mishap, and all of a sudden he would begin to talk strangely or scream in a wild voice... (1a).

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  • 20 ἀλλότριος

    ἀλλότριος, [dialect] Aeol. [full] ἀλλότερρος EM529.24, α, ον, ([etym.] ἄλλος)
    A of or belonging to another, βίοτος, νηῦς, ἄχεα, Od.1.160, 9.535, Il.20.298; γυνή another man's wife, A.Ag. 448 (lyr.); ἀλλοτρίων χαρίσασθαι to be bountiful of what is another's, Od.17.452; γναθμοῖσι γελοίων ἀλλοτρίοισιν with faces unlike their own, of a forced, unnatural laugh, ib.20.347; ἀ. ὄμμασιν εἷρπον by the help of another's eyes, S.OC 146(lyr.); οὐκ ἀ. ἄτην not inflicted by other hands, Id.Ant. 1259; but ἀ. φόνος murder of a stranger (cf. 11.1), Pl.Euthphr.4b: prov., ἀ. ἀμᾶν θέρος reap where one has not sown, Ar.Eq. 392, cf. Hes.Th. 599; ἀλλοτριωτάτοις τοῖς σώμασιν χρῆσθαι deal with one's body as if it belonged to another, Th.1.70; τὰ ἀλλότρια, [var] contr. τἀλλότρια, what belongs to others, not one's own, τἀ. ἀποστερεῖν, δειπνεῖν, X.Ages.4.1, Theopomp. Com.34.
    II opp. οἰκεῖος, foreign, strange,
    1 of persons,

    ἀ. φώς

     stranger,

    Od.18.219

    , cf. Ar.Ra. 481; almost = enemy, Il.5.214, Od.16.102; οὐδέ τις ἀλλοτρίων no stranger, Hdt.3.155;

    εἴτε ἀ. εἴτε οἰκεῖος ὁ τεθνεώς Pl.Euthphr.4b

    ;

    ἀ. τῆς πόλεως Lys.28.6

    ;

    οὐδείς ἐστί μοι ἀ., ἂν ᾖ χρηστός Men.602

    ; ἀλλοτριώτερος τῶνπαίδων less near than thy children, Hdt.3.119; ἀλλοτριώτερος, opp. οἰκειότερος, Arist.EN 1162a3: c. dat.,

    ἀλλότριοι ὑμῖν ὄντες Isoc. 14.51

    .
    b hostile, unfavourably disposed, c. gen.,

    ἀ. Ῥωμαίων Plb.28.4.4

    ;

    - ώτατος μοναρχίας D.S.16.65

    ;

    ἀλλότρια φρονῶν τοῦ βασιλέως Plb.36.15.7

    , cf. OGI90.19 ([place name] Rosetta).
    c disinclined,

    πρὸς τὰς κακοπαθείας Plb.36.15.2

    .
    2 of things, alien, strange,

    τροφή Pl.R. 491d

     ([comp] Comp.), etc.; εἴ τι πρότερον γέγονεν ἀ. estrangement, Decr. ap. D.18.185;

    ἡ ἀ.

     alien country, enemy's country,

    Lys.2.6

    , Isoc.10.50, cf. Hdt.8.73: c. gen., alien from,

    ἐπιτηδεύματα δημοκρατίας ἀ. Lys.31.34

    ; οὐδὲν ἀ. ποιῶν τοῦ τρόπου Decr. ap. D.18.182.
    b Medic., abnormal, Sor.2.5, Gal.14.780; ἀ. σάρκες superfluous fat, Pl.R. 556d.
    c foreign to the purpose,

    λόγοι Arist.EE 1218b23

    : [comp] Comp., Id.EN 1159b24: [comp] Sup., Id.Cat. 15b29, cf. Polystr.p.17 W.
    d Astrol., = ἀπόστροφος, POxy. 464.16.
    III Adv. ἀλλοτρίως, διακεῖσθαι πρὸς ἀλλήλας to be unfavourably disposed towards.., Lys.33.1, cf.Isoc.12.159; ἄ. ἔχειν πρός .. Id.5.80: [comp] Comp.

    - ιώτερον

     less favourably,

    D.18.9

    .
    2 strangely, marvellously, Epigr.Gr.989.2.
    3 in a manner foreign to, c. gen., Pers.Stoic.1.1co. [-ο ¯ τρ- only in Men.557 s. v. l.]

    Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > ἀλλότριος

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