Aliunde

Part of speech: adverb

Pronunciation: /alɪˈʌndi/

Definitions

1. Derived from an external source or separate origin
2. Indicating information that comes from a different place or context
3. Originating from a separate or outside source distinct from the main one

Etymology: The Latin "aliunde" is a compound of two small, very old words: "alius," meaning "other," and "unde," meaning "whence," or "from where." Put together, they literally mean "from another place." Its use in English is almost entirely legal and scholarly, where it is typically used to say that a piece of evidence or information comes from a source separate from the one already under discussion. A witness might be said to know a fact "aliunde," meaning independently of the document in question. The word's power comes from that compound structure. "Unde" is the same root that gives English words like "undersigned" only indirectly, but it is the "whence" half that carries the sense of origin, so the term always points away from the main source toward an independent one. Borrowed directly from Latin, "aliunde" kept its original form and meaning, which is why it still reads as distinctly formal in English.