autrement

From Middle French aultrement, from Old French autrement, from Early Medieval Latin alterā mente. Synchronically autre +‎ -ment.

• IPA^(key): /o.tʁə.mɑ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

autrement

1. differently, in another way or manner

   autrement dit ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

autrement

1. otherwise, or else

   Synonym: sinon

• “autrement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• altrement, aotrement, atremant, atrement, aultrement, authement, autremant, auterment

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin alterā mente. Synchronically autre +‎ -ment.

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /altɾəˈment/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /au̯tɾəˈmant/

autrement

1. otherwise
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Sire, ne puet estre autremant.

     My Lord, it cannot be otherwise.

• Middle French: aultrement
  • French: autrement

• “autre”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.