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5-letter words (6 found)

ALERT,ALTER,ARTEL,LATER,RATEL,TALER,

4-letter words (17 found)

ARET,ARLE,EARL,LAER,LARE,LATE,LEAR,LEAT,RALE,RATE,REAL,TAEL,TALE,TARE,TEAL,TEAR,TELA,

3-letter words (20 found)

ALE,ALT,ARE,ART,ATE,EAR,EAT,ELT,ERA,ETA,LAR,LAT,LEA,LET,RAT,RET,TAE,TAR,TEA,TEL,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AL,AR,AT,EA,EL,ER,ET,LA,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 56 words from alter according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of alter

alter

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒl.tə/, /ˈɔːl.tə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔl.təɹ/
    • (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈɑl.təɹ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ), -ɔːltə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: al‧ter
  • Homophone: altar

Etymology 1

From Old French alterer (French altérer), from Medieval Latin alterāre (“to make other”), from Latin alter (“the other”), from al- (seen in alius (“other”), alienus (“of another”), etc.; see alias, alien, etc.) + compar. suffix -ter.

Verb

alter (third-person singular simple present alters, present participle altering, simple past and past participle altered)

  1. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
    Near-synonym: tweak
  2. (intransitive) To become different.
  3. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  4. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  5. (transitive) To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.
    • 2016 February 10, Sydney Pruitt and Claire Ricke (quoting Jeff Barrick), "Police: Man lying in street hit, killed by Capital Metro bus", KXAN:
      We don't know if he was altered on alcohol or drugs or anything […]
Alternative forms
  • altre (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations

Further reading

  • “alter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “alter”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Etymology 2

Probably from alter ego.

Noun

alter (plural alters)

  2. (psychology, multiplicity) One of the personalities, identities, or selves in a person with dissociative identity disorder or another form of multiplicity.
    Synonym: headmate

References

  • MPD/DID Glossary
  • DID Research: Alters

Etymology 3

Noun

alter

  1. Misspelling of altar.

See also

  • alter kaker

Anagrams

  • Alert, alert, altre, artel, later, ratel, taler, telar

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse altari, from Old Saxon altari, from Late Latin altare (“altar”). Cognate with English altar and German Altar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈald̥ɐ]

Noun

alter n (singular definite altret or alteret, plural indefinite altre)

  1. (religion) altar, a table or a platform for making sacrifices.
  2. (Christianity) altar, the ritual space of a Christian church.

Inflection

References

“alter” in Den Danske Ordbog

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʔaltɐ/

Adjective

alter

  1. inflection of alt:
    1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
    2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
    3. strong genitive plural

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈaltər/ [ˈal.t̪ər]
  • Rhymes: -altər
  • Syllabification: al‧ter

Etymology 1

From English alter, from Old French alterer (French altérer), from Medieval Latin alterare (“to make other”), from Latin alter (“the other”).

Verb

altêr

  1. to alter, to tailor clothes to make them fit

Etymology 2

Noun

altêr

  1. (colloquial) Clipping of alter ego.

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *aliteros (“the other of two”). Akin to alius. Compare with ulter.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈaɫ.tɛr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈal̪.t̪er]

Adjective

alter (feminine altera, neuter alterum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal)

  1. the other, the second
  2. the one...the other (alter...alter)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal).

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1444: “l'altro raccoglie” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 76: “aux autres” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “alter”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 353

Further reading

  • “alter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “alter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • alter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian altro, from Latin alter.

Adjective

alter

  1. other

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

alter n (definite singular alteret / altret, indefinite plural alter / altere / altre, definite plural altera / altra / altrene)

  1. an altar

Etymology 2

Noun

alter m

  1. indefinite plural of alt

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • altar

Noun

alter n (definite singular alteret, indefinite plural alter, definite plural altera)

  1. an altar

Old High German

Adjective

altēr

  1. strong masculine nominative singular of alt

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