altar (table or similar structure used for religious rites)
çekim: çoğul Altäre · tamlayan Altares
köken: From Middle High German alter, altære, from Old High German altāri, from Proto-West Germanic *altārī (“altar”), borrowed from Latin altāre. The form was readapted to the Latin source, partly to avoid homophony with Alter (“age”). Compare also Dutch altaar alongside archaic outer.
köken: Inherited from Old French autel, from a change of suffix from earlier alter, borrowed from Latin altāre (mostly attested in the plural form altāria).
cathedral · chair (professorial position at a university) · department, laboratory (organizational unit at a university dealing with a specific research subject)
çekim: çoğul katedry · tamlayan katedry
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin cathedra, from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₃édeti Proto-Italic *odō Latin olō Latin oleō Latin adoleō? ▲ Latin altusinflu. Latin altāreder. Czech oltář Ultimately from Latin altāre.
altar (flat-topped structure used for religious rites) · communion table · chancel
çekim: çoğul altare · tamlayan altarului
köken: Inherited from Latin altārium or altār, with the plural deriving from altāria. Compare oltar, a rare and dated variant which derives from the same source via a Slavic intermediary.
altar (flat-topped structure used for religious rites) · mazbah (sacrificial place) · a ladder on a ship's dock used to get up and down to and from the dock floor
çekim: çoğul altar-altar
köken: Borrowed from Dutch altaar, from Latin altāre.