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inter alia

inter alia

1 9.1
Including some items while leaving others out
  • idiom
  • /ˌɪntər ˈeɪliə/
  • Formal
translation icon : entre otras cosas
  • Among these basic goods, one might identify, inter alia, life, knowledge, play, marriage, aesthetic experience, friendship, and religion.
  • include, inter alia

Examples

  • 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

besides
vsinter alia
1.0

To add another reason or fact

marks that other unmentioned items exist rather than giving a new point
in addition
vsinter alia
453 1.2

Adds extra information

indicates there are other unmentioned items as well
additionally
vsinter alia
  • Formal
111 3.6

To give another fact or idea

indicates other unmentioned items rather than a single example

Surface Forms

inter alia positive

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.