altero
Catalan
Galician
Italian
Alternative forms
- altiero (archaic or poetic)
Etymology 1
From alto (“high, tall”) + -iero; alto is from Latin altus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow; to nourish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈtɛ.ro/
- Rhymes: -ɛro
- Hyphenation: al‧tè‧ro
Derived terms
Further reading
- altero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈal.te.ro/
- Rhymes: -altero
- Hyphenation: àl‧te‧ro
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈal.te.roː/, [ˈäɫ̪t̪ɛroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈal.te.ro/, [ˈäl̪t̪ero]
Verb
alterō (present infinitive alterāre, perfect active alterāvī, supine alterātum); first conjugation
- (Medieval Latin) to change, alter
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛɾu
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈteɾo/ [al̪ˈt̪e.ɾo]
- Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: al‧te‧ro
Further reading
- “altero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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