Noun: alto
Gender: m
Hyphenation: al‧to
| Singular m | alto |
| Plural m | altos |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like alto
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós
4. Proto-Italic *altos
5. Latin altuslbor.
6. Spanish alto
7. Learned borrowing from Latin altus, ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin. The form alto represents a pronunciation influenced by the most learned layers of the language, and is not the normal phonetic result expected in a naturally inherited word. Cf. the now archaic form oto, which was used more often in Old Spanish and is the form of the word that was completely popularly inherited, preserved in some toponyms/placenames, and its derivative otear and the rare or regional otar. Compare also archaic Galician outo (versus the standard alto today). See also the related Spanish otero (and Portuguese outeiro). See: Galician Nouns '
outo', Spanish Nouns '
otero', Portuguese Nouns '
outeiro'.
Verbs referencing "alto"
Catalan Nouns
alto, Galician Nouns
alto.
Translations