alte

See also: ALTE and Alte

Eastern Arrernte

Noun

alte

1. (anatomy) hair

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
• 2020. Eastern and Central Arrernte Learners' List, compiled by Veronica Perrule Dobson and John Henderson. Alice Springs, NT.

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós

Proto-Italic *altos

Latin altusbor.

Esperanto alta

Proto-Italic *-ēd

Old Latin -ēd

Latin -ebor.

Russian -е (-e)influ.

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Polish -einflu.

Czech -einflu.

Esperanto -e

Esperanto alte

From alta + -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalte/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -alte
• Syllabification: al‧te

Adverb

alte

1. high

   Alte levu la manon.

   Raise your hand high.

   Nuboj ŝvebis alte super la urbo.

   Clouds floated high above the city.

   Vi tro alte pendigis la bildon.

   You hung the picture too high.

2. highly

   alte estimata

   highly esteemed

   alte evoluinta civilizo

   a highly evolved civilization

   • 2012, Plato, translated by Donald Broadribb, La Respubliko (Traduko al Esperanto) [The Republic (Translation into Esperanto)], 2nd corrected edition (paperback), New York: Mondial, →ISBN, page 20:

     "Mi demandis," mi diris, "ĉar ne ŝajnas al mi ke vi tre alte taksas monon. Tiaj estas homoj kiuj ne perlaboris ĝin. La perlaborintoj amas ĝin duoble pli ol la aliaj. Same kiel poetoj amas siajn poemojn kaj patroj siajn infanojn, tiel la perlaborintoj amas riĉon ĉar ili kreis ĝin."

     "I asked," I said, "because it doesn't seem to me that you value money very highly. Such are people who do not earn it. The earners love it twice more than the others. In the same way poets love their poems and fathers their children, the earners love wealth in that way, because they created it."

Further reading

• “alte”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaltə]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -altə

Adjective

alte

1. inflection of alt:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Interlingua

Adjective

alte (comparative plus alte, superlative le plus alte)

1. high

Antonyms

• basse

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.te/
• Rhymes: -alte
• Hyphenation: àl‧te

Adjective

alte f pl

1. feminine plural of alto

Anagrams

• late, tale, tela

Latin

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós

Proto-Italic *altos

Latin altus

Latin -ē

Latin altē

From altus (“high, deep”) + -ē.

Alternative forms

• altum

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaɫ.teː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal.te]

Adverb

altē (comparative altius, superlative altissimē)

1. high, on high; from on high; from above
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6.156–157:

     Denique saepe geli multus fragor atque ruina
     grandinis in magnis sonitum dat nubibus alte;

     • Translation by William Ellery Leonard

       And down-pour of swift hail gives forth a sound
       Among the mighty clouds on high; […]

2. deep; deeply

   Synonym: penitus

3. profoundly; from afar

Etymology 2

Inflected form of altus (“high, deep”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaɫ.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal.te]

Adjective

alte

1. vocative masculine singular of altus

Etymology 3

Inflected form of altus (“nourished, supplied”), perfect passive participle of alō (“foster, feed, develop”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaɫ.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal.te]

Participle

alte

1. vocative masculine singular of altus

References

• “alte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “alte”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "alte", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “alte”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)
    
  • (ambiguous) what he said made a deep impression on..: hoc verbum alte descendit in pectus alicuius
    
  • (ambiguous) to go a long way back (in narrative): longe, alte (longius, altius) repetere (either absolute or ab aliqua re)
    
• alte in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Middle English

Adjective

alte

1. (Late Middle English) alternative form of halt

Old High German

Adjective

alte

1. strong masculine nominative/accusative plural of alt

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.te/
• Rhymes: -alte
• Hyphenation: al‧te

Determiner

alte

1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of alt

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalte/ [ˈal̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -alte
• Syllabification: al‧te

Adjective

alte

1. neuter singular of alto