alta

See also: Appendix:Variations of "alta"

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑːltə/
  • (file)

Noun

alta (uncountable)

  1. Rose bengal dye worn by Indian women on the feet during festivals.

See also

Anagrams

Asturian

Adjective

alta f sg

  1. feminine singular of altu

Basque

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • IPA(key): /alta/, [al̪.t̪a]

Conjunction

alta

  1. however

Catalan

Pronunciation

Adjective

alta f sg

  1. feminine singular of alt

Noun

alta f (plural altes)

  1. certification, registration
  2. (military) fitness for duty
  3. (medicine) discharge
    Ell va ser donat d’alta de l'hospital ahir.He was given discharge from the hospital yesterday.

Derived terms

Further reading

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish alta.

Noun

alta

  1. hospital discharge

Chinook Jargon

Adverb

alta

  1. now

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin altus. Compare Spanish and Italian alto, French haut, Romanian înalt. Doublet of haŭsi.

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • IPA(key): [ˈalta]
  • Rhymes: -alta
  • Hyphenation: al‧ta

Adjective

alta (accusative singular altan, plural altaj, accusative plural altajn)

  1. high (in altitude)
    • 2003, chapter 46, in Hans-Georg Kaiser, transl., Mortula ŝipo, Tyresö: Inko, translation of Das Totenschiff by B. Traven, →ISBN:
      La suno leviĝis. Freŝe laviĝinte ĝi eliris el sia marbanejo supren en la altan ĉielon.
      The sun rose up. Freshly washed, it left its ocean bath and went up into the high sky
  2. high (in pitch)
    Mi ne povas atingi la altajn tonojn de tiu kanto.
    I can’t reach the high notes in that song.
  3. tall
    • 1906, L. L. Zamenhof, speech to the 2nd Esperanto Congress in Geneva:
      Terure altaj kaj dikaj estas ankoraŭ la interpopolaj muroj.
      The walls between the people of the world are still dreadfully tall and wide.
  4. (figurative) high-minded, noble
    alta celo
    a noble goal

Antonyms

Derived terms

Finnish

Etymology

The ablative singular of the stem ala-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑltɑ/, [ˈɑ̝l̪t̪ɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑltɑ
  • Syllabification(key): al‧ta

Postposition

alta (+ genitive and/or possessive suffix)

  1. from under, from underneath, from beneath
    Synonym: alapuolelta
    Antonyms: päältä, yläpuolelta, yltä
    Pallo vieri pöydän alta.
    The ball rolled from under the table.

Inflection

Personal/possessive forms of alta
no possessor alta
possessor singular plural
1st person altani altamme
2nd person altasi altanne
3rd person altaan
altansa

Derived terms

compounds

Further reading

Anagrams

Galician

Etymology

See alto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈaltɐ]

Noun

alta f (plural altas)

  1. (medicine) certificate of discharge (from a hospital)
    Antonym: baixa
  2. entry into a profession or organization
    Antonym: baixa

Adjective

alta

  1. feminine singular of alto

References

  • alta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • alta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • alta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • alta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • alta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto alta, Italian and Italian alto, from Latin altus.

Adjective

alta

  1. high
  2. tall

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈal̪ˠt̪ˠə/

Noun

alta m pl

  1. vocative plural of alt

Noun

alta m sg

  1. genitive singular of altadh

Verb

alta

  1. present subjunctive analytic of alt

Participle

alta

  1. past participle of alt

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
alta n-alta halta not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈal.ta/
  • Rhymes: -alta
  • Hyphenation: àl‧ta

Adjective

alta

  1. feminine singular of alto

Anagrams

Khalaj

Perso-Arabic اَلتا

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *altï.

Pronunciation

  • (Mansûrâbâdî) IPA(key): [ɑltɒ], [ɒltɒ]
  • (Talxâbî, Xaltâbâdî) IPA(key): [ɒltɒ]
  • (Xarrâbî) IPA(key): [alta]

Numeral

alta

  1. six

References

Ladino

Adjective

alta (Latin spelling, masculine alto, masculine plural altos, feminine plural altas)

  1. high

Latin

Participle

alta

  1. inflection of altus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

altā

  1. ablative feminine singular of altus

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈaw.tɐ/ [ˈaʊ̯.tɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈaw.ta/ [ˈaʊ̯.ta]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈal.tɐ/ [ˈaɫ.tɐ]

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -altɐ, (Brazil) -awtɐ
  • Hyphenation: al‧ta

Adjective

alta f sg

  1. feminine singular of alto

Noun

alta f (plural altas)

  1. (healthcare) discharge (the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital)
    dar alta ato discharge (from hospital)
    ter altato be discharged
  2. (Brazil) rise; increase
    Synonym: aumento

Romanian

Pronoun

alta

  1. nominative/accusative feminine singular of altul

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈalta/ [ˈal̪.t̪a]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -alta
  • Syllabification: al‧ta

Noun

alta f (plural altas)

  1. (medicine) certificate of discharge (from a hospital)
    Antonym: baja
  2. entry into a profession or organization
    Antonym: baja
  3. (law) tax declaration, tax return

Usage notes

  • Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
    el alta, un alta
  • They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Derived terms

Adjective

alta f sg

  1. feminine singular of alto

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

Early borrowing from Spanish altar. Doublet of altar.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔalˈta/ [ʔɐlˈta]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: al‧ta

Noun

altá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜆ)

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

Derived terms

  • altahan
  • altahin
  • ialta
  • mag-alta

Further reading

  • alta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English altar.

Noun

alta

  1. altar

Turkish

Noun

alta

  1. dative singular of alt
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