altar

See also: Altar, áltár, and ältar

English

An altar in a monastery in Brandenburg, Germany

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔːl.tə/, /ˈɒl.tə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔl.tɚ/, /ˈɑl.tɚ/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɑl.tɚ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: alter
  • Hyphenation: al‧tar

Noun

altar (plural altars)

  1. A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
  2. (informal) A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
  3. (figuratively) Anything that 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.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin altāre.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /əlˈta/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /alˈtaɾ/
  • Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Noun

altar m (plural altars)

  1. altar

Cimbrian

Etymology

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

Noun

altar m (uncountable)

  1. (Sette Comuni) altar

References

  • “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

Faroese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈal̥.taɹ/

Noun

altar n (genitive singular altars, plural altar)

  1. altar

Declension

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

altar, church of Saint Mary, Melide, Galicia.

Etymology

From Old Portuguese altar, from Latin altāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈtaɾ/

Noun

altar m (plural altares)

  1. altar
    • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), 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.

Synonyms

References

  • altar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • altar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • altar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin altāre, through Dutch altaar.

Noun

altar

  1. altar

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈal̪ˠt̪ˠəɾˠ]

Verb

altar

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith 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

Alternative forms

Etymology

Found mainly in post-Classical Latin. In Classical Latin, used mostly in plural form altaria. Ultimately from adolere and influenced by altus. See also other forms altāre and altārium.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈal.tar/, [ˈaɫ.tar]

Noun

altar n (genitive altāris); third declension

  1. altar (for burnt offerings)

Inflection

Third declension 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

References

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

Manx

Noun

altar m (plural altaryn)

  1. (religion) altar

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin altar, probably through late Old Norse altari and Old Saxon altari.

Alternative forms

Noun

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

  1. an altar

Noun

altar m

  1. indefinite plural of alt

Old High German

Etymology

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

Noun

altar n

  1. age

Descendants


Old Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al.ˈtaɾ/

Noun

altar m (plural altares)

  1. altar (flat structure used for religious rites)

Descendants


Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /aɫ.ˈtaɾ/
  • (Paulista) IPA(key): /aw.ˈtaɾ/, /aw.ˈtaɹ/
  • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /aw.ˈtaɾ/, /aw.ˈtaɻ/

Noun

altar m (plural altares)

  1. altar (flat structure used for religious rites)

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • altariu (dated, rare)

Etymology

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.

Noun

altar n (plural altare)

  1. altar
  2. communion table
  3. chancel
  4. shrine, sanctuary

Synonyms

  • (altar): pristol
  • (sanctuary): sanctuar

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈtaɾ/, [al̪ˈt̪aɾ]

Noun

altar m (plural altares)

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

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