noun · neuterthird declension
altāre
altāre n (genitive altāris)
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- altar, fitting for burnt offerings
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
summa pars ārae, in quā ignis ārdet.altāre -is n — in Mille Verba, Deī et Sacra
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | altāre | altāria |
| genitive | altāris | altārium |
| dative | altārī | altāribus |
| accusative | altāre | altāria |
| ablative | altārī | altāribus |
| vocative | altāre | altāria |
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂l̥tós
- Proto-Italic*altos
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Latinaltāre
Latin altāre Possibly from *altos + -ālis, with dissimilation of the -l- in the suffix due to the -l- in the root. The term *altos is perhaps a continuation of Proto-Indo-European *h₂l̥tós, from the root *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”), and it may have once served as the participle to *oleō (“to stroke by fire”).
Gallo-Romance
- Catalanaltar
- Occitanautar
Ibero-Romance
- Portuguesealtarfrom Old Galician-Portuguese altar
- Spanishaltarfrom Old Spanish altar
- Galicianaltarfrom Old Galician-Portuguese altar
- Chavacanoaltarfrom Old Spanish altar
- Chamicuroaltarfrom Old Spanish altar
Italo-Dalmatian
- Italianaltare
- Dalmatianaltur
- Istriotaltàr
Borrowings
- Frenchautelfrom Old French autel
- Albanianlter
- Basquealdare
- Belarusianалтар
- Proto-Brythonic*alltọr
- Chuukeseantare
- Estonianaltar
- Latvianaltāris
- Lithuanianaukuras
- Malayalamഅൾത്താര
In English words that came into English from altāre
- altaraltāre