Noun: altar
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | altar |
| Plural m | altares |
Sample Sentences
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[…]et talloulle a cabeça dentro ẽno tẽplo, ante o altar. ([…] and he cut his head inside, in the temple, before the altar.) [1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 660:]
Nouns inflected like altar
solpor,
ordenador,
xograr,
xantar,
xaguar,
chamador,
branquexador,
petador,
batedor,
detonador,
cobertor,
multiplicador,
comparador,
proxector,
gerador,
reiseñor,
humidificador,
chuchamel,
glaciar,
traballador, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese altar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin altāre. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
altar', Latin Nouns '
altāre'.
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