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Catalan
Pronunciation
Adjective
altra
- feminine singular of altre
Hungarian
Etymology
alt + -ra
Pronunciation
Noun
altra
- sublative singular of alt
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from French autre, Italian altro, Spanish otro, from Latin alter.
Pronunciation
Adjective
altra
- other, another
Me prizas l'altra libro plue.- I like the other book more.
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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish altra (“foster father”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *altrawū (“foster uncle”) (compare Welsh athro (“teacher”)), from *aleti (“feed, raise”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to nourish”)) and *awū (“uncle”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os (“maternal grandfather/uncle”)).
Noun
altra m or f (genitive singular altra, nominative plural altraí)
- (obsolete, always masculine) foster father
- (rare) nurse
Usage notes
This word has always been rare in modern Irish. The sense ‘nurse’ was revived in the late 20th century as a politically correct and gender-neutral alternative to banaltra, which contains the feminine prefix ban-. Among native Irish-speakers, however, the everyday term was, and still is, banaltra. A male nurse may be called banaltra fir (literally “nurse of a man”).
Declension
As masculine:
As feminine:
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Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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altra
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n-altra
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haltra
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t-altra
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
Further reading
- “altra”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “altra”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 24
- “altra”, in The National Terminology Database for Irish, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU and Foras na Gaeilge, 2006–2024
- “altra”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Italian
Pronunciation
Adjective
altra f
- feminine singular of altro
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Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
altra n pl
- definite plural of alter