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Verb
alterno
- first-person singular present indicative of alternar
Galician
Verb
alterno
- first-person singular present indicative of alternar
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈtɛr.no/
- Rhymes: -ɛrno
- Hyphenation: al‧tèr‧no
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin alternus, from alter (“other”).
Adjective
alterno (feminine alterna, masculine plural alterni, feminine plural alterne)
- alternate, alternating, every other
- (mathematics, botany) alternate
Etymology 2
Verb
alterno
- first-person singular present indicative of alternare
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From alternus (“one after the other, alternate”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
Verb
alternō (present infinitive alternāre, perfect active alternāvī, supine alternātum); first conjugation
- to do one thing and then another, do by turns, interchange, alternate
- to hesitate, vacillate
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Descendants
References
- “alterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “alterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- alterno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Verb
alterno
- first-person singular present indicative of alternar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈteɾno/
- Rhymes: -eɾno
- Syllabification: al‧ter‧no
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin alternus.
Adjective
alterno (feminine alterna, masculine plural alternos, feminine plural alternas)
- alternate, alternative
- Synonym: alternativo
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
alterno
- first-person singular present indicative of alternar
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