LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
verb

altiāre

*altiāre

Meaning

  1. Proto Romancereconstructionto hoist

Origins

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂eltós
  3. Proto-Italic*altos
  4. Latinaltiāre

Proto-Indo-European *-yetider. Latin -iō Latin *altiāre From altus (“high”) + -iāre (factitive verb-forming suffix). Displaced Classical altāre. Eventually borrowed from Romance into Medieval Latin as altiō.

Gallo-Romance
  • Catalanalçar
  • Frenchhausserfrom Old French haucier
  • Occitanauçar
  • Occitannauçar
Italo-Romance
  • Italianalzare
  • Sardinianaltzarefrom Italian alzare
  • Sardinianaltzaifrom Italian alzare
  • Corsicanalzà
  • Judeo-Italianאַלְצַארֵי
  • Neapolitanaizà
  • Sicilianauzari
  • Sicilianausari
Ibero-Romance
  • Portuguesealçarfrom Old Galician-Portuguese alçar
  • Spanishalzarfrom Old Spanish alçar
  • Asturianalzar
  • Galicianalzarfrom Old Galician-Portuguese alçar
  • Ladinoalsarfrom Old Spanish alçar
Dalmatian
  • unknownalzur
North Italian
  • Friulianalçâ
  • Lombardalzà
  • Piedmonteseaussé
  • Romanshozer
  • Romanshuzer
  • Romanshauzar
  • Venetanalsar
  • Venetanalçar

In English words that came into English from altiāre

  • enhance*altiare
  • hawser*altiāre

Quick answers

What does altiāre mean in Latin?
altiāre, a verb, means “to hoist”.
Where does altiāre come from?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- → Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós → Proto-Italic *altos → Latin altiāre.