altare
Afrikaans
Italian
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈta.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: al‧tà‧re
Derived terms
- altare maggiore
Latin
Usage notes
In Classical Latin, mainly used as plural form altāria. See other forms altar and altārium.
Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Descendants
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Old Occitan:
- West Iberian
- → Albanian: lter
- → Old French: autel, alter
- → Old Irish: altóir
- → Russian: алта́рь (altárʹ) (see there for further descendants)
- → Northern Sami: áltár
- → Basque: aldare
- → Belarusian: алтар (altar)
- → Breton: aoter
- → Chuukese: antare
- → Estonian: altar
- → Latvian: altāris
- → Lithuanian: aukuras
- → Malayalam: അൾത്താര (aḷttāra)
- → Maltese: artal
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- → Ukrainian: вівтар (vivtar)
- → Uzbek: altar
- → Welsh: allor
References
- “altare”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Old Frisian
Alternative forms
Inflection
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Descendants
- West Frisian: alter
Swahili
Etymology
Presumably borrowed from English altar, although the preservation of the rhotic may indicate a form created by missionaries under the influence of Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun
altare (n class, plural Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value))
Swedish

Etymology
From late Old Norse altari, from Old Saxon altari, from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Declension
| Declension of Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) | altaret | Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) | altarna |
| Genitive | altares | altarets | altares | altarnas |
Related terms
- altarklädnad
- altaroffer
- altarring
- altartavla
- högaltare