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== 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) (ambitransitive) To change the form or structure of. Near-synonym: tweak (intransitive) To become different. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal). (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) (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 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) (religion) altar, a table or a platform for making sacrifices. (Christianity) altar, the ritual space of a Christian church. ==== Inflection ==== ==== References ==== “alter” in Den Danske Ordbog == German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʔaltɐ/ === Adjective === alter inflection of alt: strong/mixed nominative masculine singular strong genitive/dative feminine singular 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 to alter, to tailor clothes to make them fit === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== altêr (colloquial) clipping of alter ego === Further reading === “alter”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), 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): [ˈal.ter] === Determiner === alter (feminine altera, neuter alterum); first/second-declension determiner (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal declension) the other, the second the one...the other (alter...alter) ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal declension). ==== 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] – map 76 – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “alter”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 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 other == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== alter n (definite singular alteret / altret, indefinite plural alter / altere / altre, definite plural altera / altra / altrene) an altar === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== alter m indefinite plural of alt == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Alternative forms === altar === Noun === alter n (definite singular alteret, indefinite plural alter, definite plural altera) an altar == Old High German == === Adjective === altēr strong masculine nominative singular of alt