altoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈæl.təʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈæl.toʊ/
• 韻: -æltəʊ

名詞

alto (複数形 altos または 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

使用する際の注意点

• Nouns often modified by "alto": saxophone, clarinet, flute, recorder, part, solo, voice, singer.

同意語

• (musical part または section): contratenor altus, high countertenor

等位語

• (music) SATB (Initialism of soprano, alto, tenor, bass.)

派生語

Further reading

• alto on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• ATOL, Toal, a lot, alot, atlo-, lota, talo-, tola

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.toː/, [ˈäɫ̪t̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.to/, [ˈäl̪t̪o]

語源 1

From altus (“high, deep”) +‎ -ō.

動詞

altō (present infinitive altāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stem

1. I make high, raise, elevate.

Conjugation

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

altō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of altus

参照

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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.
  • (ambiguous) the tide is coming in: aestus ex alto se incitat (B. G. 3.12)
    
  • (ambiguous) the storm drives some one on an unknown coast: procella (tempestas) aliquem ex alto ad ignotas terras (oras) defert
    
  • (ambiguous) to make fast boats to anchors: naves (classem) constituere (in alto)
    

接頭辞

alto-

1. (meteorology) relating to clouds of middle étage

アナグラム

• ATOL, Toal, a lot, alot, atlo-, lota, talo-, tola