Where does “Altar” come from?
Altar (German) comes from Middle High German altære, from Old High German altāri, from Latin altāre, from Latin adoleō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
Altar (German): altar table or similar structure used for religious rites
Definitions
- altar table or similar structure used for religious rites
Ancestry of “Altar”, step by step
Altar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle High German altære
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle High German | altære | — |
| 2 | Old High German | altāri | altar |
| 3 | Latin | altāre | altar, fitting for burnt offerings |
| 4 | Latin | adoleō | to emit an odor, smell |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |