altar

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 2 Galician 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Synonyms 3 Old Frisian 3.1 Noun 4 Old High German 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Noun 5 Spanish 5.1 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Noun

altar (plural altars)

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

[edit] Derived terms

• altar boy
• altar poem
• high altar

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• adolere
• ara

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altar m. (plural altares)

1. altar

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• ara

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[edit] Old Frisian

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altar

1. altar

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[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

1. age

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[edit] Spanish

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altar m. (plural altares)

1. altar
2. Stone that separates the firebox from the hearth in reverberatory furnaces