et al. English

Meaning et al. meaning

What does et al. mean?

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et al. Abbreviation

— et al. is an abbreviation for et alia.

et al.

— adverb (= et al, et alii, et aliae, et alia) and others ('et al.' is used as an abbreviation of 'et alii' (masculine plural) or 'et aliae' (feminine plural) or 'et alia' (neuter plural) when referring to a number of people) the data reported by Smith et al.

— adverb and elsewhere (used when referring to other occurrences in a text)