altar

altar (flat-topped structure used for religious rites)

altár (canonical masculine)
altar (indefinite nominative singular)
altari (definite nominative singular)
altarë (indefinite nominative plural)
altarët (definite nominative plural)
altar (accusative indefinite singular)
altarin (accusative definite singular)
altarë (accusative indefinite plural)
altarët (accusative definite plural)
altari (dative indefinite singular)
altarit (dative definite singular)
altarëve (dative indefinite plural)
altarëve (dative definite plural)
altari (ablative indefinite singular)
altarit (ablative definite singular)
altarësh (ablative indefinite plural)
altarëve (ablative definite plural)


altar

(Sette Comuni) altar (flat-topped structure used for religious rites)

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


altar

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.

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:

A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.

(informal) A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.

[…]now marking the end of ascetic rationalism, the monadology no longer implied a sacrifice of individuality on the altar of rationality.

2000, Alain Renaut, M. B. De Bevoise, “Hegel and Nietzsche”, in Era of the Individual: A Contribution to a History of Subjectivity, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 129, lines 19–25:

(figurative) Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.

→ Maori: āta

altaar

Inherited from Middle English auter, inherited from Old English altar and borrowed from Old French auter, both derived from Latin altāre, probably related to adolere (“burn”); thus "burning place", influenced by altus (“high”). Displaced native Middle English wēved.


altar

head

altar (genitive altari, partitive altarit)

altari (genitive)
altarit (partitive)
altar (nominative singular)
altarid (nominative plural)
altar (accusative nominative singular)
altarid (accusative nominative plural)
altari (accusative genitive singular)
altarid (accusative genitive plural)
altari (genitive singular)
altarite (genitive plural)
altarit (partitive singular)
altareid (partitive plural)
altarisse (illative singular)
altaritesse (illative plural)
altareisse (illative plural)
altaris (inessive singular)
altarites (inessive plural)
altareis (inessive plural)
altarist (elative singular)
altaritest (elative plural)
altareist (elative plural)
altarile (allative singular)
altaritele (allative plural)
altareile (allative plural)
altaril (adessive singular)
altaritel (adessive plural)
altareil (adessive plural)
altarilt (ablative singular)
altaritelt (ablative plural)
altareilt (ablative plural)
altariks (singular translative)
altariteks (plural translative)
altareiks (plural translative)
altarini (singular terminative)
altariteni (plural terminative)
altarina (essive singular)
altaritena (essive plural)
altarita (abessive singular)
altariteta (abessive plural)
altariga (comitative singular)
altaritega (comitative plural)


altar

fo-noun

altar n (genitive singular altars, plural altar)

altars (genitive singular)
altar (plural)
altar (indefinite nominative singular)
altarið (definite nominative singular)
altar (indefinite nominative plural)
altarini (definite nominative plural)
altar (accusative indefinite singular)
altarið (accusative definite singular)
altar (accusative indefinite plural)
altarini (accusative definite plural)
altari (dative indefinite singular)
altarinum (dative definite singular)
altarum (dative indefinite plural)
altarunum (dative definite plural)
altars (genitive indefinite singular)
altarsins (definite genitive singular)
altara (genitive indefinite plural)
altaranna (definite genitive plural)

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


altar

[…]et talloulle a cabeça dentro ẽno tẽplo, ante o altar.

1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 660:

[…] and he cut his head inside, in the temple, before the altar.

From Old Galician-Portuguese altar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin altāre.


altar

(nautical term) a ladder on a ship's dock used to get up and down to and from the dock floor

Borrowed from Dutch altaar, from Latin altāre.


altar

[ˈal̪ˠ.t̪ˠəɾˠ]


altar

Alternative form of altāre (“altar”) (flat-topped structure used for religious rites)

la-noun

altar n (genitive altāris); third declension

altāris (genitive)
altar (nominative singular)
altāria (nominative plural)
altāris (genitive singular)
altārium (genitive plural)
altārī (dative singular)
altāribus (dative plural)
altar (accusative singular)
altāria (accusative plural)
altārī (ablative singular)
altāribus (ablative plural)
altar (singular vocative)
altāria (plural vocative)


altar

(religion) altar (flat-topped structure used for religious rites)


altar

form removed by a 1984 spelling decision; superseded by alter: altar (flat-topped structure used for religious rites)


altar

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

altaret (definite singular)
altar (indefinite plural)
altara (definite plural)
alter (alternative)
altari (alternative dialectal)

From late Old Norse altari, from Old Saxon altari, itself taken from Latin altāre (“altar”).


altar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


altar

Eſta e como ſanta Maria liurou a Abadeſſa prenne q̇ adormecera anto ſeu Altar chorando.

a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 7 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/069.html] facsimile])

This one is about how Holy Mary acquitted the pregnant abbess who had fallen asleep crying in front of her altar.

Galician: altar

Portuguese: altar

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


altar

Middle High German: alter

Alemannic German: Altar

Bavarian: Ålter, Oiter

desctree

German: Alter, Alda, Alla
→ Luxembourgish: Alter

Yiddish: אַלטער (alter)

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


altar

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


altar

altare (plural)
altar (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
altarul (accusative definite nominative singular)
altare (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
altarele (accusative definite nominative plural)
altar (indefinite singular)
altarului (definite singular)
altare (indefinite plural)
altarelor (definite plural)
altarule (singular vocative)
altarelor (plural vocative)
altariu (alternative dated rare)

Inherited 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.


altar

stone that separates the firebox from the hearth in reverberatory furnaces

Chavacano: altar

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


altar

altár (canonical)
ᜀᜎ᜔ᜆᜇ᜔ (Baybayin)
antal (alternative obsolete)
artal (alternative obsolete)

Borrowed from Spanish altar, from Old Spanish altar, from Latin altāre. Doublet of alta.