different between ulto vs alto

English

Adverb

ulto (not comparable)

1. Contraction of ultimo (of last month).

Anagrams

• Toul, lout, tolu

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ultus, past participle of ulc?scor (“I avenge; I take vengeance”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ul.to/, [?ul?t?o]
• Rhymes: -ulto
• Hyphenation: ùl?to

Participle

ulto m (feminine singular ulta, masculine plural ulti, feminine plural ulte)

1. (poetic) avenged, revenged

   Synonym: vendicato

   Antonym: (literary) inulto

Related terms

• ultore

Anagrams

• luto

Latin

Participle

ult?

1. dative masculine singular of ultus
2. dative neuter singular of ultus
3. ablative masculine singular of ultus
4. ablative neuter singular of ultus

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)

1. 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.
2. A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part.
3. (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

1. 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)

1. (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)

1. 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)

   • (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.

See also

• alteco

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.to/

Noun

alto m (plural altos)

1. (music) alto
2. (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)

1. tall
2. high
3. (nautical) deep

Antonyms

• (high): baixo

Derived terms

• altura

Related terms

• alzar

Noun

alto m (plural altos)

1. top; high place

Adverb

alto

1. 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)

1. high, tall

   Antonym: basso

2. deep

3. 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)

1. 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

1. I make high, raise, elevate.

Conjugation

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Participle

alt?

1. 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)

1. loud
2. tall
3. high
4. (informal) excessive, extreme

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

Adverb

alto (comparative mais alto superlative o mais alto)

1. loud; loudly

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: altu

Etymology 2

From the imperative of German halten.

Interjection

alto!

1. 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)

1. tall

   Antonym: bajo

2. high

   Antonym: bajo

3. loud

4. upper, top
5. senior (rank)

Derived terms

Related terms

Noun

alto m (plural altos)

1. height (in measurements)

Adverb

alto

1. up, high, highly
2. loudly

Etymology 2

From German halt.

Noun

alto m (plural altos)

1. stop, halt
2. break, pause, rest
3. (traffic) stop (signal)
4. (traffic) red light

   Antonym: siga

Derived terms

Interjection

¡alto!

1. halt!; stop!

Further reading

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

References