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5-letter words (4 found)

ALTAR,ARTAL,RATAL,TALAR,

4-letter words (5 found)

ALAR,RATA,TAAL,TALA,TARA,

3-letter words (8 found)

AAL,ALA,ALT,ART,LAR,LAT,RAT,TAR,

2-letter words (6 found)

AA,AL,AR,AT,LA,TA,

You can make 23 words from altar according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of altar

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Definitions and meaning of altar

altar

Etymology

From Middle English alter, from Old English alter, taken from Latin altare (altar), probably related to adolere (burn); thus "burning place", influenced by altus (high). Displaced native Old English wēofod.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔːl.tə/, /ˈɒl.tə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔl.tɚ/
  • (Canada, cotcaught merger) IPA(key): /ˈɑl.tɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: alter
  • Hyphenation: al‧tar

Noun

altar (plural altars)

  1. A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
  2. (informal) A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
  3. (figurative) Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Maori: āta

Translations

Anagrams

  • artal, ratal, talar

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin altāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [əlˈta]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [alˈtaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Noun

altar m (plural altars)

  1. altar

References

  • “altar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish altar.

Noun

altár

  1. altar

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German alter, altære, from Old High German altāri, from Latin altāre. Cognate with German Altar.

Noun

altar m (uncountable)

  1. (Sette Comuni) altar

References

  • “altar” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

altar (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. altar

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • altar”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • altar”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • altar in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse altari, from Old Saxon altari, from Latin altare (altar), cognate with Danish alter (altar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈal̥.taɹ/

Noun

altar n (genitive singular altars, plural altar)

  1. altar

Declension

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese altar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin altāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈtaɾ/

Noun

altar m (plural altares)

  1. altar
    Synonym: ara

Derived terms

  • altar maior

References

  • “altar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “altar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “altar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch altaar, from Latin altāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaltar/
  • Rhymes: -tar, -ar, -r
  • Hyphenation: al‧tar

Noun

altar (first-person possessive altarku, second-person possessive altarmu, third-person possessive altarnya)

  1. altar
    Synonym: mazbah

Further reading

  • “altar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈal̪ˠt̪ˠəɾˠ]

Verb

altar

  1. present indicative autonomous of alt
  2. imperative autonomous of alt
  3. present subjunctive autonomous of alt

Mutation

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈal.tar/, [ˈäɫ̪t̪är]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈal.tar/, [ˈäl̪t̪är]

Noun

altar n (genitive altāris); third declension

  1. Alternative form of altāre

Usage notes

In pre-Classical and Classical Latin, this noun only occurs in the plural as a plurale tantum.

Declension

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

Descendants

See altāre.

References

  • altar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • altar”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]

Lombard

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈtɑːr/ (Milanese)

Noun

altar m (plural altar)

  1. altar

Manx

Noun

altar m (plural altaryn)

  1. (religion) altar

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

altar n

  1. form removed by a 1984 spelling decision; superseded by alter

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From late Old Norse altari, from Old Saxon altari, itself taken from Latin altāre (altar).

Alternative forms

  • alter
  • altari (dialectal)

Noun

altar n (definite singular altaret, indefinite plural altar, definite plural altara)

  1. an altar

Etymology 2

Noun

altar m

  1. indefinite plural of alt

References

  • “altar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin altāre (altar for burnt offerings). Cf. also outeiro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al.ˈtaɾ/

Noun

altar m (plural altares)

  1. altar (flat structure used for religious rites)
    • Eſta e como ſanta Maria liurou a Abadeſſa prenne q̇ adormecera anto ſeu Altar chorando.
      This one is about how Holy Mary acquitted the pregnant abbess who had fallen asleep crying in front of her altar.

Descendants

  • Galician: altar
  • Portuguese: altar

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aldrą, whence also Old English ealdor, Old Norse aldr.

Noun

altar n

  1. age

Derived terms

  • gialtar

Descendants

  • Middle High German: alter
    • Alemannic German: Altar
    • Bavarian: Ålter, Oiter
    • German: Alter, Alda, Alla
      • Luxembourgish: Alter
    • Yiddish: אַלטער (alter)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese altar, from Latin altāre (altar for burnt offerings). Cf. also Portuguese outeiro.

Pronunciation

Noun

altar m (plural altares)

  1. altar (flat structure used for religious rites)

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • altariudated, rare

Etymology

Inherited from Latin altārium or altār, with the plural deriving from altāria. Compare oltar, a rare and dated variant which derives from the same source via a Slavic intermediary.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈtar/

Noun

altar n (plural altare)

  1. altar
    Synonym: pristol
  2. communion table
  3. chancel
  4. shrine, sanctuary
    Synonym: sanctuar

Declension

Further reading

  • altar in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish altar (attested as far back as the Cantar de Mio Cid), from Latin altāre. See also otero.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈtaɾ/ [al̪ˈt̪aɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: al‧tar

Noun

altar m (plural altares)

  1. altar (a table used for religious rites)
  2. stone that separates the firebox from the hearth in reverberatory furnaces

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Chavacano: altar

References

Further reading

  • “altar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish altar, from Latin altāre. Doublet of alta.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔalˈtaɾ/, [ʔɐlˈtaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: al‧tar

Noun

altár (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜆᜇ᜔)

  1. altar (a table used for religious rites)
    Synonyms: dalanginan, dambana, alta

Further reading

  • “altar”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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