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alto
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian alto (“high”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?æl.t??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æl.to?/
- Rhymes: -ælt??
Noun
alto (plural altos or alti)
- A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody.
- A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part.
- (colloquial, music) An alto saxophone
Usage notes
- Nouns often modified by "alto": saxophone, clarinet, flute, recorder, part, solo, voice, singer.
Synonyms
- (musical part or section): contratenor altus, high countertenor
Coordinate terms
- (music) SATB (Initialism of soprano, alto, tenor, bass.)
Translations
Further reading
- alto on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- ATOL, Toal, a lot, alot, atlo-, lota, talo-, tola
Asturian
Adjective
alto n sg
- neuter singular of altu
Dutch
Etymology
From a shortening of alternatieveling or alternatief +? -o.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l.to?/
- Hyphenation: al?to
Noun
alto m (plural alto's)
- (Netherlands, derogatory) Someone who participates in an alternative subculture (e.g. a hipster, emo or punk).
- Synonyms: alternatieveling, alternativo
Esperanto
Etymology
alta +? -o.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?alto/
Noun
alto (accusative singular alton, plural altoj, accusative plural altojn)
- height; elevation; altitude
- (Can we date this quote?), Vladimír Vá?a (translator), Aventuroj de la Brava Soldato ?vejk dum la Mondmilito (The Good Soldier Švejk) by Jaroslav Hašek, Part 1, Chapter 15,
- Pri kio morga? prelegi al unujaraj volontuloj en la lernejo? ?u pri tio, kiel ni difinas la alton de monteto? Kial ni mezuras la alton ?iam de la marnivelo? Kiel el altoj super la marnivelo elkalkuli propran alton de la monteto ekde ?ia piedo?
- What should he lecture on to the volunteers in the school tomorrow? How do we determined the height of a given hill? Why do we reckon the height from sea level? How can we establish from its height above sea level the height of a mountain from its foot? (Cecil Parrott translation, Heinemann, 1973)
- Pri kio morga? prelegi al unujaraj volontuloj en la lernejo? ?u pri tio, kiel ni difinas la alton de monteto? Kial ni mezuras la alton ?iam de la marnivelo? Kiel el altoj super la marnivelo elkalkuli propran alton de la monteto ekde ?ia piedo?
- (Can we date this quote?), Sergio Pokrovskij (translator), La Majstro kaj Margarita (The Master and Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book Two, Chapter 24,
- [...] la peza fenestra kurteno ?ovi?is flanken, la fenestro lar?e malfermi?is kaj en la fora alto vidi?is la plena [...] luno.
- [...] the heavy curtain over the window was pushed aside, the window opened wide, and high above (lit. in the distant height) appeared the full moon.
- [...] la peza fenestra kurteno ?ovi?is flanken, la fenestro lar?e malfermi?is kaj en la fora alto vidi?is la plena [...] luno.
- (Can we date this quote?), Vladimír Vá?a (translator), Aventuroj de la Brava Soldato ?vejk dum la Mondmilito (The Good Soldier Švejk) by Jaroslav Hašek, Part 1, Chapter 15,
See also
- alteco
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al.to/
Noun
alto m (plural altos)
- (music) alto
- (music) Ellipsis of violon alto; viola
Further reading
- “alto” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Etymology
From Old Portuguese alto, from Latin altus. This form is probably semi-learned or influenced by learned orthography, as with Portuguese alto and Spanish alto. Cf. also the now archaic form outo, which was probably popularly inherited from an unattested hypothetical Old Portuguese *outo, preset also in place names as Montouto (“High-hill”), from the same Latin word (compare also Old Spanish oto).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?alto?/
Adjective
alto m (feminine singular alta, masculine plural altos, feminine plural altas)
- tall
- high
- (nautical) deep
Antonyms
- (high): baixo
Derived terms
- altura
Related terms
- alzar
Noun
alto m (plural altos)
- top; high place
Adverb
alto
- high
References
- “alto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “alto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “alto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “alto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “alto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin altus (“high”), from Proto-Italic *altos, from Proto-Indo-European *h?eltós, derived from the root *h?el- (“to grow, nourish”).
Cognate with English old and Welsh allt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?al.to/
- Rhymes: -alto
- Hyphenation: àl?to
Adjective
alto (feminine alta, masculine plural alti, feminine plural alte)
- high, tall
- Antonym: basso
- deep
- loud
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? English: alto
- ? German: Alt
Anagrams
- lato, talo
References
- alto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Ladino
Etymology
From Latin altus.
Adjective
alto (Latin spelling, feminine alta, masculine plural altos, feminine plural altas)
- high
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?al.to?/, [?ä??t?o?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?al.to/, [??l?t??]
Etymology 1
From altus (“high, deep”) +? -?.
Verb
alt? (present infinitive alt?re); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stem
- I make high, raise, elevate.
Conjugation
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Participle
alt?
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of altus
References
- alto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- alto in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- alto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): [?ä??.t??]
- Homophone: auto (Brazil)
- Hyphenation: al?to
- Rhymes: -awtu, -altu
Etymology 1
From Old Portuguese alto, from Latin altus, ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin. This form is likely a semi-learned term, or was influenced by learned elements of the language and uses such an orthography, as with Galician and Spanish alto (which have popularly inherited variants outo and oto, respectively). There was once likely an *outo in Old Portuguese that is not attested, but which left an inherited descendant in Galician. See also outeiro, a related word.
Adjective
alto m (feminine singular alta, masculine plural altos, feminine plural altas, comparable)
- loud
- tall
- high
- (informal) excessive, extreme
Inflection
Derived terms
Related terms
Adverb
alto (comparative mais alto superlative o mais alto)
- loud; loudly
Descendants
- Kabuverdianu: altu
Etymology 2
From the imperative of German halten.
Interjection
alto!
- halt!
See also
- alto lá!
References
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?alto/, [?al?.t?o]
Etymology 1
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).
Adjective
alto (feminine alta, masculine plural altos, feminine plural altas) (superlative altísimo)
- tall
- Antonym: bajo
- high
- Antonym: bajo
- loud
- upper, top
- senior (rank)
Derived terms
Related terms
Noun
alto m (plural altos)
- height (in measurements)
Adverb
alto
- up, high, highly
- loudly
Etymology 2
From German halt.
Noun
alto m (plural altos)
- stop, halt
- break, pause, rest
- (traffic) stop (signal)
- (traffic) red light
- Antonym: siga
Derived terms
Interjection
¡alto!
- halt!; stop!
Further reading
- “alto” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
References
alto From the web:
- what alto means
- what alto means in spanish
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- what altitude do planes fly
- what altitude is space
- what altitude does space start
- what altitude are we at
- what altitude is denver
quinticlave
English
Etymology
From Latin qu?nque (“five”) + clavis (“key”), formed as a calque of French quinte à clef.
Noun
quinticlave (plural quinticlaves)
- (music) An alto ophicleide.
References
- Grove Music Online
quinticlave From the web:
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