alterno
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== Catalan ==
=== Verb ===
alterno
first-person singular present indicative of alternar
== Galician ==
=== Verb ===
alterno
first-person singular present indicative of alternar
== Italian ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /alˈtɛr.no/
Rhymes: -ɛrno
Hyphenation: al‧tèr‧no
=== Etymology 1 ===
Borrowed from Latin alternus, from alter (“other”).
==== Adjective ====
alterno (feminine alterna, masculine plural alterni, feminine plural alterne)
alternate, alternating, every other
(mathematics, botany) alternate
=== Etymology 2 ===
==== Verb ====
alterno
first-person singular present indicative of alternare
=== Anagrams ===
notarle, orlante, terlano
== Latin ==
=== Etymology ===
From alternus (“one after the other, alternate”) + -ō.
=== Pronunciation ===
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aɫˈtɛr.noː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [alˈtɛr.no]
=== Verb ===
alternō (present infinitive alternāre, perfect active alternāvī, supine alternātum); first conjugation
to do one thing and then another, do by turns, interchange, alternate
to hesitate, vacillate
==== Conjugation ====
==== Derived terms ====
alternāmentum
alternātim
alternātiō
alternātus
==== Descendants ====
=== References ===
“alterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“alterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“alterno”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
== Portuguese ==
=== Verb ===
alterno
first-person singular present indicative of alternar
== Spanish ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /alˈteɾno/ [al̪ˈt̪eɾ.no]
Rhymes: -eɾno
Syllabification: al‧ter‧no
=== Etymology 1 ===
Borrowed from Latin alternus.
==== Adjective ====
alterno (feminine alterna, masculine plural alternos, feminine plural alternas)
alternate, alternative
Synonym: alternativo
===== Derived terms =====
===== Related terms =====
=== Etymology 2 ===
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
==== Verb ====
alterno
first-person singular present indicative of alternar
=== Further reading ===
“alterno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
== Tagalog ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Spanish alterno, from Latin alternus.
=== Pronunciation ===
(Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔalˈteɾno/ [ʔɐlˈt̪ɛɾ.n̪o]
Rhymes: -eɾno
Syllabification: al‧ter‧no
=== Noun ===
alterno (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜆᜒᜇ᜔ᜈᜓ)
alternate; alternative; substitute
Synonyms: alternatibo, kahalili, panghalili, sustituto
==== Related terms ====
=== Further reading ===
“alterno”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 27