altern

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English

Etymology

Latin alternus.

Adjective

altern (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Acting by turns; alternate.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book CLXXXIX”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 346-352:
      And God made two great lights, great for thir use / To Man, the greater to have rule by day, / The less by night, alterne ; and made the stars, / And set them in the firmament of Heaven / To illuminate the Earth, and rule the day / In their vicissitude, and rule the night, / And light from darkness to divide. []

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German altern, from Old High German *altarōn (only attested as the past participle gialdaroda), from Proto-West Germanic *aldarōn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʔaltɐn/
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Verb

altern (weak, third-person singular present altert, past tense alterte, past participle gealtert, auxiliary sein)

  1. to age

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Further reading

  • altern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • altern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • altern” in Duden online
  • altern” in OpenThesaurus.de

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French alterne, from Latin alternus.

Adjective

altern m or n (feminine singular alternă, masculine plural alterni, feminine and neuter plural alterne)

  1. alternate

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite altern alternă alterni alterne
definite alternul alterna alternii alternele
genitive-
dative
indefinite altern alterne alterni alterne
definite alternului alternei alternilor alternelor