alta

See also: Alta, álta, älta, altă, Alta., and Alt-A

Contents

English

Noun

alta (uncountable)

1. rose bengal dye worn by Indian women on the feet during festivals

Anagrams

• Lata, lata, tala

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Asturian

Adjective

alta f sg

1. feminine singular of altu

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Basque

Conjunction

alta

1. however

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈal.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ta/

Adjective

alta f sg

1. feminine singular of alt

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Chinook Jargon

Adverb

alta

1. now

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Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin altus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalta/
• Hyphenation: al‧ta
• Rhymes: -alta

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Adjective

alta (accusative singular altan, plural altaj, accusative plural altajn)

1. high (in altitude)
   • 2003, Hans-Georg Kaiser (translator), chapter 46, in Mortula ŝipo, Tyresö: Inko, translation of Das Totenschiff by B. Traven, →ISBN:

     La suno leviĝis. Freŝe laviĝinte ĝi eliris el sia marbanejo supren en la altan ĉielon.

     The sun rose up. Freshly washed, it left its ocean bath and went up into the high sky.

2. high (in pitch)

   Mi ne povas atingi la altajn tonojn de tiu kanto.

   I can’t reach the high notes in that song.

3. tall
   • 1906, L. L. Zamenhof, speech to the 2nd Esperanto Congress in Geneva:

     Terure altaj kaj dikaj estas ankoraŭ la interpopolaj muroj.

     The walls between the people of the world are still dreadfully tall and wide.

4. (figuratively) high-minded, noble

   alta celo

   a noble goal

Antonyms

• malalta

Related terms

• altaĵo (“hill, rise, elevated area”)
• alte (“high, highly”)
• altebenaĵo (“plateau”)
• alteco (“height; highness”)
• altejo (“height, elevated area”)
• altepreza (“high-priced, costly”)
• altestimi (“to respect”)
• altgrada (“high (in temperature, rank)”)
• altgrade (“to a high degree”)
• alti (“to be high”)
• altigi (“raise, elevate”)
• altiĝi (“rise”)
• altkreska (“tall”)
• altranga (“high-ranking; upper-class”)
• alto (“altitude; elevation; height”)
• alttaksi (“to appreciate, value”)
• altvalora (“valuable”)
• plialtigi (“raise; heighten; increase”)
• plialtiĝi (“rise, get higher”)
• tonalto (“pitch (acoustics)”)

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Finnish

(index al)

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ëla, whence Estonian all and Hungarian alatt (the ablative singular of ala-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑltɑ/, [ˈɑlt̪ɑ]
• Hyphenation: al‧ta

Postposition

alta (+ genitive)

1. from under, from underneath, from beneath.

   Pallo vieri pöydän alta.

   The ball rolled from under the table.

   Antonyms: yläpuolelta, yltä

Inflection

Declension of alta noun case singular plural adverbial form singular plural nominative ala- – superessive alhaalla – genitive – – delative alhaalta – partitive – – sublative alhaalle – accusative – – lative alas – inessive – – temporal – – elative – – causative – – illative – – multiplicative – – adessive alla – distributive – – ablative alta – temp. dist. – – allative alle – prolative ali alitse – essive – – situative allekkain (alakkain) – translative – – oppositive alatusten – instructive – – abessive – – comitative – –

Related terms

• See the inflection table.
• ala-
• alempana
• alhainen

Anagrams

• alat, lata

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Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto alta, Italian and Italian alto, from Latin altus.

Adjective

alta

1. high
2. tall

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal̪ˠt̪ˠə/

Noun

alta m pl

1. vocative plural of alt

Noun

alta m sg

1. genitive singular of altadh

Verb

alta

1. present subjunctive analytic of alt

Participle

alta

1. past participle of alt

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
alta	n-alta	halta	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Italian

Adjective

alta f sg

1. Feminine singular of adjective alto.

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Ladino

Adjective

alta f (Latin spelling)

1. high

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Latin

Participle

alta

1. nominative feminine singular of altus
2. nominative neuter plural of altus
3. accusative neuter plural of altus
4. vocative feminine singular of altus
5. vocative neuter plural of altus

altā

1. ablative feminine singular of altus

References

• alta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈaɫ.tɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaw.tɐ/
• Rhymes: -awtɐ

Adjective

alta f sg

1. Feminine singular of adjective alto.
   • 2005, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Rocco, page 138:

     O protesto de Hermione foi abafado por uma risadinha alta.

     Hermione's objection was interrupted by a loud little laugh.

Noun

alta f (plural altas)

1. rise; increase

   Synonym: aumento

2. (healthcare) discharge (the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital)

   dar alta a ― to discharge (from hospital)

   ter alta ― to be discharged

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalta/, [ˈal̪t̪a]

Adjective

alta f sg

1. Feminine singular of adjective alto.

Noun

alta f (plural altas)

1. certificate of discharge (from a hospital)

   Antonym: baja

2. entry into a profession or organization

   Antonym: baja

3. tax declaration

Usage notes

• The feminine noun alta is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el alta

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with a stressed a sound such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

Derived terms

• dar de alta, darse de alta

Further reading

• “alta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English altar.

Noun

alta

1. altar

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Turkish

Noun

alta

1. dative singular of alt