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altar

See also: Altar, áltár, and ältar

English edit

 
An altar in a monastery in Brandenburg, Germany

Etymology edit

From Middle English alter, from Old English alter, taken from Latin altare (“altar”), probably related to adolere (“burn”); thus "burning place", influenced by altus (“high”). Displaced native Old English wēofod.

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Noun edit

altar (plural altars)

  1. A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
    • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 9–14:
      To hawke, or els to hunt
      From the auter to the funt,
      Wyth cry unreverent,
      Before the sacrament,
      Wythin the holy church bowndis,
      That of our fayth the grownd is.
  2. (informal) A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
  3. (figurative) Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.
    • 2000, Alain Renaut, M. B. De Bevoise, Era of the Individual: A Contribution to a History of Subjectivity:
      […] now marking the end of ascetic rationalism, the monadology no longer implied a sacrifice of individuality on the altar of rationality.

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • → Maori: āta

Translations edit

Anagrams edit

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin altāre.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

altar m (plural altars)

  1. altar

References edit

  • “altar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chavacano edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Spanish altar.

Noun edit

altár

  1. altar

Cimbrian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle High German alter, altære, from Old High German altāri, from Latin altāre. Cognate with German Altar.

Noun edit

altar m (uncountable)

  1. (Sette Comuni) altar

References edit

  • “altar” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Estonian edit

Etymology edit

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Noun edit

altar (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. altar

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading edit

  • “altar”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “altar”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • altar in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Faroese edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse altari, from Old Saxon altari, from Latin altare (“altar”), cognate with Danish alter (“altar”).

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Noun edit

altar n (genitive singular altars, plural altar)

  1. altar

Declension edit

Declension of altar
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative altar altarið altar altarini
accusative altar altarið altar altarini
dative altari altarinum altarum altarunum
genitive altars altarsins altara altaranna

Galician edit

 
altar, church of Saint Mary, Melide, Galicia.

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese altar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin altāre.

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Noun edit

altar m (plural altares)

  1. altar
    Synonym: ara
    • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 660:
      et talloulle a cabeça dentro ẽno tẽplo, ante o altar.
      and he cut his head inside, in the temple, before the altar.

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • “altar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “altar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “altar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Indonesian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Dutch altaar, from Latin altāre.

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Noun edit

altar (first-person possessive altarku, second-person possessive altarmu, third-person possessive altarnya)

  1. altar
    Synonym: mazbah

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Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈal̪ˠt̪ˠəɾˠ]

Verb edit

altar

  1. present indicative autonomous of alt
  2. imperative autonomous of alt
  3. present subjunctive autonomous of alt

Mutation edit

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

Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

altar n (genitive altāris); third declension

  1. Alternative form of altāre

Usage notes edit

In pre-Classical and Classical Latin, this noun only occurs in the plural as a plurale tantum.

Declension edit

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

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

Descendants edit

See altāre.

References edit

  • “altar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “altar”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]

Lombard edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /alˈtɑːr/ (Milanese)

Noun edit

altar m (plural altar)

  1. altar

Manx edit

Noun edit

altar m (plural altaryn)

  1. (religion) altar

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Noun edit

altar n

  1. form removed by a 1984 spelling decision; superseded by alter

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

 
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology 1 edit

From late Old Norse altari, from Old Saxon altari, itself taken from Latin altāre (“altar”).

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

altar n (definite singular altaret, indefinite plural altar, definite plural altara)

  1. an altar

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

altar m

  1. indefinite plural of alt

References edit

Old Galician-Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From Latin altāre (“altar for burnt offerings”). Cf. also outeiro.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

altar m (plural altares)

  1. altar (flat structure used for religious rites)

Descendants edit

Old High German edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *aldrą, whence also Old English ealdor, Old Norse aldr.

Noun edit

altar n

  1. age

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese altar, from Latin altāre (“altar for burnt offerings”). Cf. also Portuguese outeiro.

Pronunciation edit

 
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /alˈtaɾ/ [aɫˈtaɾ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /alˈta.ɾi/ [aɫˈta.ɾi]

Noun edit

altar m (plural altares)

  1. altar (flat structure used for religious rites)

Romanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin altārium or altār, with the plural deriving from altāria. Compare oltar, a rare and dated variant which derives from the same source via a Slavic intermediary.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

altar n (plural altare)

  1. altar
    Synonym: pristol
  2. communion table
  3. chancel
  4. shrine, sanctuary
    Synonym: sanctuar

Declension edit

Declension of altar
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) altar altarul (niște) altare altarele
genitive/dative (unui) altar altarului (unor) altare altarelor
vocative altarule altarelor

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Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Spanish altar (attested as far back as the Cantar de Mio Cid[1]), from Latin altāre. See also otero.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /alˈtaɾ/ [al̪ˈt̪aɾ]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: al‧tar

Noun edit

altar m (plural altares)

  1. altar (a table used for religious rites)
  2. stone that separates the firebox from the hearth in reverberatory furnaces

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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Tagalog edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish altar, from Latin altāre. Doublet of alta.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

altár (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜆᜇ᜔)

  1. altar (a table used for religious rites)
    Synonyms: dalanginan, dambana, alta

Further reading edit

  • “altar”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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