alheio

• Hyphenation: a‧lhei‧o

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese alhẽo, from Latin aliēnus ("belonging to someone else", later "exotic, foreign"), from alius (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Compare Galician alleo, Spanish ajeno. Doublet of alien.

alheio (feminine alheia, masculine plural alheios, feminine plural alheias)

1. someone else’s, that belongs to someone else

   Não mexa nas coisas alheias. ― Don't touch other people's stuff.

2. alien, foreign

   Uma terra alheia. ― A foreign land.

3. distracted
4. (with preposition a) indifferent [to]
5. (with preposition a) unknowing, unaware [of]

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:alheio.

alheio m (plural alheios)

1. alien

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:alheio.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

alheio

1. first-person singular present indicative of alhear

• “alheio”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “alheio”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024