inter alia
- idiom
- /ˌɪntər ˈeɪliə/
- Formal
- Among these basic goods, one might identify, inter alia, life, knowledge, play, marriage, aesthetic experience, friendship, and religion.
- include, inter alia
Examples
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Debts and the economic polio of the public sector, inter alia, drove Egypt to the peace table in 1978.
Academic text (1999) -
The second category is structural change, which includes inter alia the subcategories of final demand shift and sectoral shift.
Academic text (1999) -
Since to be a member of a community is inter alia to have rights, without rights there cannot be a community.
Academic text (1999) -
The choice among them will depend, inter alia, on the scholar's focus of interest and on the context of their potential use.
Academic text (1990) -
Therefore, the social resistance to the increase in effective retirement age, inter alia through increasing the pensionable age, is huge.
Academic text (2018) -
For example, he filed suit against respondents in state court, alleging, inter alia, a breach of contract.
Blog text (33) -
Among their major concerns were the provisions of Article I (4) that applied the Geneva Conventions, inter alia, to conflicts.
Academic text (1991) -
CEN became operational in 2000 and contains, inter alia, data on seizures of drugs and drug offenses and a Concealment Picture Database.
Academic text (2007) -
The proposal is animated by the conviction that the process of rebuilding Iraq on democratic foundations must be grounded, inter alia, in the pluralist, rational, and scientific traditions of Islamic civilization.
Academic text (2004) -
The committee will address several issues, inter alia, funding and resource allocation.
Synonyms
To add another reason or fact
Adds extra information
To give another fact or idea
Surface Forms
Morphology
inter + alia
The phrase is directly compositional in Latin: 'inter' (among/between) + 'alia' (other things), so the overall meaning 'among other things' follows immediately from the constituents. Although the words are Latin rather than English (so many B1 learners may not know them), if a learner does know the constituent meanings the sense is fully predictable and parallels common constructions in other languages.
Etymology
The Latin phrase inter alia comes from two words, inter and alia, and literally means 'among other things'. People use inter alia in lists to show there are more things not named, so it means 'and others' in formal writing.