alterno
Catalan edit
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alterno
Galician edit
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alterno
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin alternus, from alter (“other”).
Adjective edit
alterno (feminine alterna, masculine plural alterni, feminine plural alterne)
Etymology 2 edit
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alterno
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From alternus (“one after the other, alternate”) + -ō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /alˈter.noː/, [äɫ̪ˈt̪ɛrnoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /alˈter.no/, [äl̪ˈt̪ɛrno]
Verb edit
alternō (present infinitive alternāre, perfect active alternāvī, supine alternātum); first conjugation
- to do one thing and then another, do by turns, interchange, alternate
- to hesitate, vacillate
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References edit
- “alterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “alterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- alterno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese edit
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alterno
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
alterno (feminine alterna, masculine plural alternos, feminine plural alternas)
- alternate, alternative
- Synonym: alternativo
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Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
alterno
Further reading edit
- “alterno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014