alto

Etymology
Borrowed from. .

Noun



 * 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)  An alto saxophone.

Usage notes

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

Coordinate terms

 * SATB

Translations

 * Arabic: ألتو
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ალტო
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: alt, cuach
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hawaiian: leo wahine, ʻaeko
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:, , , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: người hát giọng nữ trầm, đàn antô , kèn antô


 * Bulgarian:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Slovene:
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
, ultimately of origin.

Adjective

 * 1) tall
 * 2) high
 * 3) loud
 * 4) upper, top
 * 1) loud
 * 2) upper, top
 * 1) loud
 * 2) upper, top
 * 1) upper, top
 * 1) upper, top

Noun

 * 1) height in measurements

Adverb

 * 1) up, high, highly
 * 2) above, over
 * 3) loudly
 * 1) loudly

Etymology
From a shortening of or.

Noun

 * 1)  Someone who participates in an alternative subculture (e.g. a hipster, emo or punk).

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) height; elevation; altitude
 * , Vladimír Váňa (translator), Aventuroj de la Brava Soldato Ŝvejk dum la Mondmilito (The Good Soldier Švejk) by Jaroslav Hašek, Part 1, Chapter 15,
 * "eo"

- Pri kio morgaŭ prelegi al unujaraj volontuloj en la lernejo? Ĉu pri tio, kiel ni difinas la alton de monteto? Kial ni mezuras la alton ĉiam de la marnivelo? Kiel el altoj super la marnivelo elkalkuli propran alton de la monteto ekde ĝia piedo?


 * , Sergio Pokrovskij (translator), La Majstro kaj Margarita (The Master and Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book Two, Chapter 24,
 * "eo"

- [...] la peza fenestra kurteno ŝoviĝis flanken, la fenestro larĝe malfermiĝis kaj en la fora alto vidiĝis la plena [...] luno.

Noun

 * 1)  ; viola
 * 1)  ; viola

Etymology
From, from. This form is probably semi-learned or influenced by learned orthography, as with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Cf. also the now archaic form, which was probably popularly inherited from an unattested hypothetical , present also in place names as , from the same Latin word (compare also 🇨🇬).

Adjective

 * 1) tall
 * 2) high
 * 3)  deep
 * 1)  deep

Noun

 * 1) top; high place

Adverb

 * 1) high

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 (dialectal ) and dialectal 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) wave

Etymology
From, from , from , derived from the root. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) high, tall
 * 2) deep
 * 3) loud
 * 1) deep
 * 2) loud
 * 1) loud

Etymology
From earlier, from. Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to float

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) high

Etymology 1
From.

Verb

 * 1) to make high, raise, elevate

Etymology 1
From, from , ultimately of origin. This form is likely a semi-learned term, or was influenced by learned elements of the language and uses such an orthography, as with 🇨🇬 (which have popularly inherited variants and, respectively). There was once likely an in Old Galician-Portuguese that is not attested, but which left an inherited descendant in Galician. See also, a related word.

Adjective

 * 1) loud
 * 2) tall
 * 3) high
 * 4)  excessive, extreme

Adverb

 * 1) loud; loudly

Etymology 2
From the imperative of.

Interjection

 * 1) halt!

Etymology 1
, ultimately of origin. The form alto represents a pronunciation influenced by the most learned layers of the language, and is not the normal phonetic result expected in a naturally inherited word. Cf. the now archaic form, which was used more often in Old Spanish and is the form of the word that was completely popularly inherited, preserved in some toponyms/placenames, and its derivative and the rare or regional. Compare also archaic 🇨🇬 (versus the standard today). See also the related 🇨🇬 (and 🇨🇬).

Adjective

 * 1) tall
 * 2) high
 * 3) loud
 * 4) upper, top
 * 5) senior rank
 * 1) loud
 * 2) upper, top
 * 3) senior rank
 * 1) upper, top
 * 2) senior rank
 * 1) senior rank

Noun

 * 1) height in measurements

Adverb

 * 1) up, high, highly
 * 2) loudly

Etymology 2
.

Noun



 * 1) stop, halt
 * 2) break, pause, rest
 * 3)  stop signal
 * 4)  red light

Interjection

 * 1) halt!; stop!