# altare
## Afrikaans
### Noun

altare
* plural of altaar

## Italian
### Etymology

From Late Latin altāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /alˈta.re/
* Rhymes: -are
* Hyphenation: al‧tà‧re

### Noun

altare m (plural altari, diminutive altarino)
* altar

#### Derived terms

* altare maggiore

### References

* ↑ altare in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Further reading

* altare in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* altare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* Altera, Telara, altera, realtà, talare

## Latin
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

altāre
* present active infinitive of altō

### Etymology 2

Probably from adoleō (“to burn (as an offering)”), influenced by altus (“high, tall”).

#### Alternative forms

* (post-Classical or Late Latin) altar, altārium

#### Noun

altāre n (genitive altāris); third declension
* altar, fitting for burnt offerings

##### Usage notes

In Classical Latin, mainly used as plural form altāria. See other forms altar and altārium.

##### Declension

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

##### Descendants

* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Dalmatian: altur (or from altārium)
** Italian: altare
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: altar
** Occitan: autar
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Galician-Portuguese: altar
*** Galician: altar
*** Portuguese: altar
** Old Spanish: altar
*** Spanish: altar
**** Chavacano: altar
**** → Chamicuro: altar
* Borrowings:
** → Albanian: lter
** → Basque: aldare
** → Belarusian: алтар (altar)
** → Breton: aoter
** → Chuukese: antare
** → Estonian: altar
** → Latvian: altāris
** → Lithuanian: aukuras
** → Malayalam: അൾത്താര (aḷttāra)
** → Maltese: artal
** → Northern Sami: áltár
** → Old French: autel, alter
*** French: autel
*** Norman: autel
** → Old Irish: altóir
*** Irish: altóir
*** Manx: altar
*** Scottish Gaelic: altair
** → Russian: алта́рь (altárʹ) (see there for further descendants)
** → Swahili: altare
** → Ukrainian: вівтар (vivtar)
** → Uzbek: altar
** → Welsh: allor

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “adoleō (> Derivatives > altare)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 24-5

### Further reading

* “altare”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “altare”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

## Old Frisian
### Alternative forms

* alter

### Noun

altāre m or n
* altar

#### 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 Latin altare.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

altare class IX (plural altare class X)
* altar

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

altare n
* altar (flat-topped structure used for religious rites)

#### Related terms

* altarklädnad
* altaroffer
* altarring
* altartavla
* högaltare

### Anagrams

* latare, talare