altare

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	altāre	altāria
Genitive	altāris	altārium
Dative	altārī	altāribus
Accusative	altāre	altāria
Ablative	altārī	altāribus
Vocative	altāre	altāria

Descendants edit

Italo-Dalmatian
- Dalmatian: altur (or from altārium)
- Italian: altare
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: altar
- Occitan: autar
West Iberian
- Old Galician-Portuguese: altar
  - Galician: altar
  - Portuguese: altar
- Old Spanish: altar
  - Spanish: altar
    - Chavacano: altar
    - → Chamicuro: altar
→ Albanian: lter
→ Old French: autel, alter
- French: autel
- Norman: autel
→ Old Irish: altóir
- Irish: altóir
- Manx: altar
- Scottish Gaelic: altair
→ Russian: алта́рь (altárʹ) (see there for further descendants)
→ Northern Sami: áltár
→ Basque: aldare
→ Belarusian: алтар (altar)
→ Breton: aoter
→ Chuukese: antare
→ Estonian: altar
→ Latvian: altāris
→ Lithuanian: aukuras
→ Malayalam: അൾത്താര (aḷttāra)
→ Maltese: artal
→ Swahili: altare
→ Ukrainian: вівтар (vivtar)
→ Uzbek: altar
→ Welsh: allor

References edit

“altare”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old Frisian edit

Alternative forms edit

alter

Noun edit

altāre m or n

altar

Inflection edit

Declension of altāre (masculine ja-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	altāre	altārar, altāra
genitive	altāres	altāra
dative	altāre	altārum, altārem
accusative	altāre	altārar, altāra

Declension of altāre (neuter ja-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	altāre	altāre, altāru
genitive	altāres	altāra
dative	altāre	altārum, altārem
accusative	altāre	altāre, altāru

Descendants edit

West Frisian: alter

Swahili edit

Etymology edit

Presumably borrowed from English altar, although the preservation of the rhotic may indicate a form created by missionaries under the influence of Latin altare.