altor

altu +‎ -or.

• IPA^(key): /alˈtoɾ/ [al̪ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: al‧tor

altor m or f (plural altores)

1. altitude; height

   Nes montañes d'Asturies hai pueblos de muncha altor.

   In the mountains of Asturias, there are villages at a great altitude.

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “altor”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “altor”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow; nourish”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaɫ.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal̪.t̪or]

altor m (genitive altōris, feminine altrīx); third declension

1. nourisher; sustainer
2. foster-father

Third-declension noun.

altor (genitive altōris); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)

1. nutritious, nourishing

Declined like the noun, with masculine forms only. Feminine forms and neuter plural forms are supplied by altrīx.

• alō
• altus

• → Italian: altore (learned)

• “altor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “altor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

altor

1. genitive/dative masculine/neuter/feminine plural of alt