Alta
See also: Appendix:Variations of "alta"
English
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Proper noun
Alta
- A female given name from Latin possibly from Latin alta (“high”), fairly common in the United States in the nineteenth century.
- 1870 Mary Mapes Dodge: St. Nicholas:A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls: page 725 (Little Menan Light):
- "I'm thinkin', Marthy Ann, that as Altie's " ( she had been named Alta, for her mother ) - "close onto twelve year old, ye might be spared ter go off home- - -
- 1870 Mary Mapes Dodge: St. Nicholas:A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls: page 725 (Little Menan Light):
- (rare) A male given name from Latin.
- A town with bystatus and municipality of Finnmark, Norway.
- A census-designated place in Placer County, California, United States.
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