altar
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From Latin altare (“‘altar’”), probably related to adolere (“‘burn’”); thus burning place, influenced by a false connection with altus (“‘high’”).
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- Rhymes: -ɔːltə(r)
- Homophones: alter
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altar (plural altars)
- A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
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flat-topped structure used for religious rites
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[edit] Galician
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altar m. (plural altares)
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[edit] Old Frisian
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altar
- altar
[edit] Old High German
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Proto-Germanic *alt(i)raz, whence also Old English ealdor, Old Norse aldr
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altar
[edit] Spanish
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altar m. (plural altares)
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- altar
- Stone that separates the firebox from the hearth in reverberatory furnaces