Noun: altar
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | altar |
| Plural m | altares |
Sample Sentences
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a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 7 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/069.html] facsimile]) (This one is about how Holy Mary acquitted the pregnant abbess who had fallen asleep crying in front of her altar.)
Nouns inflected like altar
xedrez,
emperador,
bachiller,
salvador,
professor,
alcatruz,
abtor,
andar,
altar,
autor,
falar,
logar,
catar,
jogar,
mes,
sal,
almogavar,
traedor,
trobador,
tardar, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin altāre (“altar for burnt offerings”). Cf. also outeiro. See: Latin Nouns '
altāre'.
Verbs referencing "altar"
Galician Nouns
altar, Portuguese Nouns
altar.
Translations