alterとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Old French alterer (French altérer), from Medieval Latin alterare (“to make other”), from Latin alter (“the other”), from al- (seen in alius (“other”), alienus (“of another”), etc.; see alias, alien, etc.) + compar. suffix -ter.

動詞

alter (三人称単数 現在形 alters, 現在分詞 altering, 過去形および過去分詞形 altered)

1. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
   • Bible, Psalms 89:34

     My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

   • Shakespeare

     No power in Venice can alter a decree.

   • Alexander Pope

     It gilds all objects, but it alters none.

2. (intransitive) To become different.
3. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
4. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog または other animal).
5. (transitive) To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.
   • 2016 February 10, Sydney Pruitt and Claire Ricke (quoting Jeff Barrick), "Police: Man lying in street hit, killed by Capital Metro bus", KXAN:

     We don't know if he was altered on alcohol or drugs or anything […]

別の表記

• altre (廃れた用法)

派生語

関連する語

• alteration
• alternate
• alternative

Further reading

• alter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• alter in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

語源 2

Probably from alter ego.

名詞

alter (複数形 alters)

1. (especially in the plural) One of the identities or personalities of a person with multiple personality disorder / dissociative identity disorder.
   • 2012, Robert J. Kohlenberg, ‎Mavis Tsai, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (→ISBN):

     Often this process is highly aversive and evokes avoidance; that is, it can be very anxiety provoking to the host to be told that she is a multiple much less than to be told the details of an alter's experience. [...] She stated that she was now integrated, but that every day she meditated and visualized each of her alters[.]

アナグラム

• Alert, alert, altre, artel, later, ratel, taler, telar

Latin

語源

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂élteros (“the other of two”) (akin to English other). Akin to alius. Confer with ulter.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ter/, [ˈaɫ̪.t̪ɛr]

形容詞

alter (feminine altera, neuter alterum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine 単数形 in -er, pronominal)

1. the other, the second
2. the one...the other (alter...alter)

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine 単数形 in -er, pronominal).

派生語

• adulter
• altercor
• alterō
• alteruter

関連する語

派生した語

参照

• alter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• alter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• alter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • one or two days: unus et alter dies
    
  • one, two, several days had passed, intervened: dies unus, alter, plures intercesserant
    

接頭辞

alter-

1. Denotes a philosophy in opposition to or variation on the suffixed term.

派生語

• alterglobalization
• altermodernism
• altersexuality