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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altar (plural altars)

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

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[edit] Galician

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altar m. (plural altares)

  1. altar

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[edit] Latin

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Found mainly in post-Classical Latin. In Classical Latin, used mostly in plural form altaria. Ultimately from adolere and influenced by altus. See also other forms altāre and altārium.

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altar (genitive altaris); n, third declension

  1. altar (for burnt offerings)

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Number Singular Plural
nominative altar altaria
genitive altaris altarium
dative altarī altaribus
accusative altar altaria
ablative altarī altaribus
vocative altar altaria

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[edit] Manx

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altar m. (plural altaryn)

  1. (religion) altar

[edit] Old Frisian

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altar

  1. altar

[edit] Old High German

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Proto-Germanic *aldran, whence also Old English ealdor, Old Norse aldr

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altar n.

  1. age

[edit] Romanian

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From Latin altārium or altār. Cf. also oltar, a rare and dated variant from a Slavic intermediary.

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altar n. (plural altare)

  1. altar
  2. communion table
  3. chancel
  4. shrine, sanctuary

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[edit] Spanish

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From Latin altāre.

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altar m. (plural altares)

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