To a Frenchman, everything is a platitude that is not a paradox. The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly Charles James Lever A platitude that nobody has expressed and that nobody has acted on is a great truth. The Ghost in the White House Gerald Stanley Lee It is tolerated to-day for no other reason than that it has cornered the platitude market.
Et al. is defined as an abbreviation for the Latin phrase et alia which means and others.. An example of et. al. used as an abbreviation is in the sentence, The article was written by Smith, Jones, Paul, et al. which means that Smith, Jones, Paul and others wrote the article. Origin of et al.
et al. The Latin abbreviation et al. stands for et alii which translates as âand other people.â It is like etc., but it is used only for people. You will generally see et al. used in bibliographical entries for books, articles, or other publications that have several authors (usually four or more) in order to save space.