altar
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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 Middle English wēved.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒl.tə/, /ˈɔːl.tə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔl.tɚ/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈɑl.tɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ), -ɔːltə(ɹ)
- Homophone: alter
- Hyphenation: al‧tar
Noun
editaltar (plural altars)
- 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.
- (informal) A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
- (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- altarage
- altar bell
- altar boy
- altar bread
- altar call
- altar card
- altar carpet
- altar-cloth
- altar cloth
- altared
- altar girl
- altar guild
- altarist
- altarless
- altarlet
- altarlike
- altar of repose
- altarpiece
- altar poem
- altar screen
- altar server
- altar society
- altar stone
- altar-stone
- altar tomb
- altarware
- altar wine
- altarwise
- high altar
- superaltar
Descendants
edit- → Maori: āta
Translations
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Anagrams
editCatalan
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editaltar m (plural altars)
References
edit- “altar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Chavacano
editEtymology
editNoun
editaltár
Cimbrian
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German alter, altære, from Old High German altāri, from Latin altāre. Cognate with German Altar.
Noun
editaltar m (uncountable)
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
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editaltar (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
Declension
editThis 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
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse altari, from Old Saxon altari, from Latin altare (“altar”), cognate with Danish alter (“altar”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editaltar n (genitive singular altars, plural altar)
Declension
editDeclension of altar | ||||
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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
editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese altar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin altāre.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editaltar m (plural altares)
- 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
editReferences
edit- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “altar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “altar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “altar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Indonesian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Dutch altaar, from Latin altāre.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editaltar (first-person possessive altarku, second-person possessive altarmu, third-person possessive altarnya)
Further reading
edit- “altar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Irish
editPronunciation
editVerb
editaltar
- present indicative autonomous of alt
- imperative autonomous of alt
- present subjunctive autonomous of alt
Mutation
editIrish mutation | |||
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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
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈal.tar/, [ˈäɫ̪t̪är]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈal.tar/, [ˈäl̪t̪är]
Noun
editaltar n (genitive altāris); third declension
- Alternative form of altāre
Usage notes
editIn pre-Classical and Classical Latin, this noun only occurs in the plural as a plurale tantum.
Declension
editThird-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
editSee 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
editPronunciation
editNoun
editaltar m (plural altar)
Manx
editNoun
editaltar m (plural altaryn)
Norwegian Bokmål
editNoun
editaltar n
- form removed by a 1984 spelling decision; superseded by alter
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology 1
editFrom late Old Norse altari, from Old Saxon altari, itself taken from Latin altāre (“altar”).
Alternative forms
editNoun
editaltar n (definite singular altaret, indefinite plural altar, definite plural altara)
- an altar
Etymology 2
editNoun
editaltar m
- indefinite plural of alt
References
edit- “altar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Galician-Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Latin altāre (“altar for burnt offerings”). Cf. also outeiro.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editaltar m (plural altares)
- altar (flat structure used for religious rites)
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 7 (facsimile):
- Eſta e como ſanta Maria liurou a Abadeſſa prenne q̇ adormecera anto ſeu Altar chorando.
- This one is about how Holy Mary acquitted the pregnant abbess who had fallen asleep crying in front of her altar.
- Eſta e como ſanta Maria liurou a Abadeſſa prenne q̇ adormecera anto ſeu Altar chorando.
Descendants
editOld High German
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *aldrą, whence also Old English ealdor, Old Norse aldr.
Noun
editaltar n
Derived terms
editDescendants
editPortuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese altar, from Latin altāre (“altar for burnt offerings”). Cf. also Portuguese outeiro.
Pronunciation
edit
Noun
editaltar m (plural altares)
- altar (flat structure used for religious rites)
Romanian
editAlternative forms
edit- altariu — dated, rare
Etymology
editInherited 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
editNoun
editaltar n (plural altare)
Declension
editFurther reading
edit- altar in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Spanish altar (attested as far back as the Cantar de Mio Cid[1]), from Latin altāre. See also otero.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editaltar m (plural altares)
- altar (a table used for religious rites)
- stone that separates the firebox from the hearth in reverberatory furnaces
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Chavacano: altar
References
edit- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
edit- “altar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish altar, from Latin altāre. Doublet of alta.
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔalˈtaɾ/ [ʔɐlˈt̪aɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: al‧tar
Noun
editaltár (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜆᜇ᜔)
- altar (a table used for religious rites)
- Synonyms: dalanginan, dambana, alta
Further reading
edit- “altar”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero[2], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 47: “Altar) Altar (pc) C. de Igleſia v de otro lugar”
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