altare

See also: Altare and Altäre

Afrikaans

Noun

altare

1. plural of altaar

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin altāre.

Noun

altare m (plural altari)

1. altar

Derived terms

• altare maggiore - h

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Latin

Etymology 1

Verb

(deprecated template usage) altāre

1. present active infinitive of altō

Etymology 2

Probably from adolere, influenced by altus. In Classical Latin, mainly used as plural form altāria. See other forms altār and altārium.

Alternative forms

• (post-Classical or Late Latin) altār, altārium

Noun

altāre n (genitive altāris); third declension

1. altar, fitting for burnt offerings

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	altāre	altāria
Genitive	altāris	altārium
Dative	altārī	altāribus
Accusative	altāre	altāria
Ablative	altārī	altāribus
Vocative	altāre	altāria

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Dalmatian: altur (or from altārium)
  • Italian: altare
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: altar
  • Occitan: autar
• West Iberian
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: altar
    • Galician: altar
    • Portuguese: altar
  • Old Spanish: altar
    • Spanish: altar
      • Chavacano: altar
      • → Chamicuro: altar
• → Albanian: lter
• → Old Dutch: *altare
  • Middle Dutch: altare
    • Dutch: altaar
      • Afrikaans: altaar
      • Negerhollands: altar
      • → Indonesian: altar
      • → Sranan Tongo: altari
    • Limburgish: alter
• → Old English: alter, altar
  • Middle English: alter
    • English: altar
      • → Maori: āta
    • Scots: altar
• → Old French: autel, alter
  • French: autel
  • Norman: autel
• → Old Frisian: altare, alter
  • West Frisian: alter
• → Old High German: altāri
  • Middle High German: alter, altære
    • Cimbrian: altar
    • German: Altar
    • Luxembourgish: Altor
  • → Old Church Slavonic: олътарь (olŭtarĭ)
    • → Czech: oltář
      • → Polish: ołtarz
    • → Hungarian: oltár
    • → Macedonian: олтар (oltar)
    • → Romanian: oltar
    • → Russian: олтар (oltar)
      • → Kildin Sami: волтар (voltar)
    • → Slovak: oltár
    • → Slovene: oltar
    • → Serbo-Croatian: олтар/oltar
• → Old Irish: altóir
  • Irish: altóir
  • Manx: altar
  • Scottish Gaelic: altair
• → Old Saxon: altari
  • → Old Norse: altari
    • Danish: alter
    • Faroese: altar
    • Icelandic: altari
    • Norwegian: alter, altar
    • Old Swedish: altari
      • Swedish: altare
      • → Finnish: alttari

Unsorted borrowings:

• → Russian: алта́рь (altárʹ)
  • → Ingrian: alttari
  • → Kazakh: алтарь (altar)
  • → Kyrgyz: алтарь (altar)
• → Northern Sami: áltár
• → Basque: aldare
• → Belarusian: алтар (altar)
• → Breton: aoter
• → Chuukese: antare
• → Estonian: altar
• → Latvian: altāris
• → Lithuanian: aukuras
• → Malayalam: അൾത്താര (aḷttāra)
• → Maltese: artal
• → Swahili: altare
• → Uzbek: altar
• → Welsh: allor

References

• “altare”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• alter

Noun

altāre m or n

1. altar

Inflection

Declension of altāre (masculine ja-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	altāre	altārar, altāra
genitive	altāres	altāra
dative	altāre	altārum, altārem
accusative	altāre	altārar, altāra

Declension of altāre (neuter ja-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	altāre	altāre, altāru
genitive	altāres	altāra
dative	altāre	altārum, altārem
accusative	altāre	altāre, altāru

Descendants

• West Frisian: alter

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Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian altare from Latin altare.

Noun

altare (n class, plural altare)

1. altar

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Swedish

altare

Etymology

From late Old Norse altari, from Old Saxon altari, from Latin altāre (“altar”).

Noun

altare n

1. altar (flat-topped structure used for religious rites)

Declension

Declension of altare
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	altare	altaret	altare	altarna
Genitive	altares	altarets	altares	altarnas

Related terms

• altarklädnad
• altaroffer
• altarring
• altartavla
• högaltare

Anagrams

• latare, talare