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発音

• enPR: ôl′tər
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒl.tə/, /ˈɔːl.tə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɔl.tɚ/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈɑl.tɚ/

• 韻: -ɒltə(ɹ), -ɔːltə(ɹ)
• Homophone: alter
• ハイフネーション: al‧tar

名詞

altar (plural altars)

1. A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 9–14:

     To hawke, or els to hunt
     From the auter to the funt,
     Wyth cry unreverent,
     Before the sacrament,
     Wythin the holy church bowndis,
     That of our fayth the grownd is.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 228:

     Wax models of the pudenda of both sexes were regularly placed before the altar.

2. (informal) A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
3. (figurative) Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.
   • 2000, Alain Renaut, M. B. De Bevoise, “Hegel and Nietzsche”, in Era of the Individual: A Contribution to a History of Subjectivity‎, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 129, lines 19–25:

     […] now marking the end of ascetic rationalism, the monadology no longer implied a sacrifice of individuality on the altar of rationality.

派生語

派生した語

• Tok Pisin: alta
• → Māori: āta

参照

Further reading

• “altar”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• artal, ratal, talar

名詞

altar n (genitive altāris); third declension

1. alternative form of altāre (“altar”) (flat-topped structure used for religious rites)

使用する際の注意点

In pre-Classical and Classical Latin, this noun only occurs in the plural as a plurale tantum.

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

派生した語

See altāre.

参照

• “altar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “altar”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎