altare
Afrikaans
Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin altāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈta.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: al‧tà‧re
Derived terms
- altare maggiore
Latin
Usage notes
In Classical Latin, mainly used as plural form altāria. See other forms altar and altārium.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | altāre | altāria |
Genitive | altāris | altārium |
Dative | altārī | altāribus |
Accusative | altāre | altāria |
Ablative | altārī | altāribus |
Vocative | altāre | altāria |
Descendants
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Old Occitan:
- West Iberian
- → Albanian: lter
- → Old French: autel, alter
- → Old Irish: altóir
- → Russian: алта́рь (altárʹ) (see there for further descendants)
- → Northern Sami: áltár
- → Basque: aldare
- → Belarusian: алтар (altar)
- → Breton: aoter
- → Chuukese: antare
- → Estonian: altar
- → Latvian: altāris
- → Lithuanian: aukuras
- → Malayalam: അൾത്താര (aḷttāra)
- → Maltese: artal
- → Swahili: altare
- → Ukrainian: вівтар (vivtar)
- → Uzbek: altar
- → Welsh: allor
References
- “altare”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Old Frisian
Alternative forms
Inflection
Declension of altāre (masculine ja-stem) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | altāre | altārar, altāra |
genitive | altāres | altāra |
dative | altāre | altārum, altārem |
accusative | altāre | altārar, altāra |
Declension of altāre (neuter ja-stem) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | altāre | altāre, altāru |
genitive | altāres | altāra |
dative | altāre | altārum, altārem |
accusative | altāre | altāre, altāru |
Descendants
- West Frisian: alter
Swahili
Etymology
Presumably borrowed from English altar, although the preservation of the rhotic may indicate a form created by missionaries under the influence of Latin altare.
Pronunciation
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Swedish
Declension
Declension of altare | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | altare | altaret | altare | altarna |
Genitive | altares | altarets | altares | altarnas |
Related terms
- altarklädnad
- altaroffer
- altarring
- altartavla
- högaltare
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