different between alta vs snowbird

English

Noun

alta (uncountable)

1. rose bengal dye worn by Indian women on the feet during festivals

Anagrams

• Lata, lata, tala

Asturian

Adjective

alta f sg

1. feminine singular of altu

Basque

Conjunction

alta

1. however

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?al.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?al.ta/

Adjective

alta f sg

1. feminine singular of alt

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish alta.

Noun

alta

1. hospital discharge

Chinook Jargon

Adverb

alta

1. now

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin altus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?alta/
• Hyphenation: al?ta
• Rhymes: -alta

Adjective

alta (accusative singular altan, plural altaj, accusative plural altajn)

1. high (in altitude)
2. high (in pitch)

3. tall
   • 1906, L. L. Zamenhof, speech to the 2nd Esperanto Congress in Geneva:

     Terure altaj kaj dikaj estas ankora? la interpopolaj muroj.

     The walls between the people of the world are still dreadfully tall and wide.

4. (figuratively) high-minded, noble

Antonyms

• malalta

Related terms

• alta?o (“hill, rise, elevated area”)
• alte (“high, highly”)
• altebena?o (“plateau”)
• alteco (“height; highness”)
• altejo (“height, elevated area”)
• altepreza (“high-priced, costly”)
• altestimi (“to respect”)
• altgrada (“high (in temperature, rank)”)
• altgrade (“to a high degree”)
• alti (“to be high”)
• altigi (“raise, elevate”)
• alti?i (“rise”)
• altkreska (“tall”)
• altranga (“high-ranking; upper-class”)
• alto (“altitude; elevation; height”)
• alttaksi (“to appreciate, value”)
• altvalora (“valuable”)
• plialtigi (“raise; heighten; increase”)
• plialti?i (“rise, get higher”)
• tonalto (“pitch (acoustics)”)

Finnish

(index al)

Etymology

The ablative singular of ala-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lt?/, [??lt??]
• Rhymes: -?lt?
• Syllabification: al?ta

Postposition

alta (+ genitive or possessive suffix)

1. from under, from underneath, from beneath.

   Antonyms: yläpuolelta, yltä

Inflection

Related terms

• See the inflection table.
• ala-
• alempana
• alhainen

Anagrams

• -ltaa, alat, lata

Galician

Etymology

See alto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?alt?]

Noun

alta f (plural altas)

1. (medicine) certificate of discharge (from a hospital)

   Antonym: baixa

2. entry into a profession or organization

   Antonym: baixa

Adjective

alta

1. feminine singular of alto

References

• “alta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “alta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “alta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “alta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “alta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto alta, Italian and Italian alto, from Latin altus.

Adjective

alta

1. high
2. tall

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al??t???/

Noun

alta m pl

1. vocative plural of alt

Noun

alta m sg

1. genitive singular of altadh

Verb

alta

1. present subjunctive analytic of alt

Participle

alta

1. past participle of alt

Mutation

Italian

Adjective

alta f sg

1. feminine singular of alto

Ladino

Adjective

alta (Latin spelling, masculine alto, masculine plural altos, feminine plural altas)

1. high

Latin

Participle

alta

1. nominative feminine singular of altus
2. nominative neuter plural of altus
3. accusative neuter plural of altus
4. vocative feminine singular of altus
5. vocative neuter plural of altus

Participle

alt?

1. ablative feminine singular of altus

References

• alta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?a?.t?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?aw.t?/
• Rhymes: -awt?

Adjective

alta f sg

1. feminine singular of alto

Noun

alta f (plural altas)

1. rise; increase

   Synonym: aumento

2. (healthcare) discharge (the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?alta/, [?al?.t?a]

Adjective

alta f sg

1. feminine singular of alto

Noun

alta f (plural altas)

1. (medicine) certificate of discharge (from a hospital)

   Antonym: baja

2. entry into a profession or organization

   Antonym: baja

3. (law) tax declaration

Usage notes

• The feminine noun alta is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el alta

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with a stressed a sound such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

Derived terms

• dar de alta, darse de alta (“to sign up”)

Further reading

• “alta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English altar.

Noun

alta

1. altar

Turkish

Noun

alta

1. dative singular of alt

English

Etymology

snow +? bird

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sn??b??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sno?b??d/

Noun

snowbird (plural snowbirds)

1. A bird, Junco hyemalis, the dark-eyed junco.
2. A bird seen primarily in the winter time.
3. The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis).
4. A person, usually one who is retired, who travels from a cold climate to a warmer one in the winter.
5. (slang) A cocaine user.

Derived terms

• blue snowbird
• Snowbird Mountains

Translations

See also

• junco
• Wikipedia article on snowbirds (people).