alto
Signification (English)
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- tall
- high
- loud
- upper, top
- senior (rank)
Concepts
Synonyms
la parte superior
muy grande
grandazo
imenso
de gran tamaño
demasiado grande
estatura diforme
sitio elevado
espindargo
langaruto
la cumbre de la sierra
o en alto
Fréquence
Hyphenated as
al‧to
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈalto/
Etymology (English)
Borrowed from Latin altus, ultimately of Proto-Indo-European 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 oto, 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 otear and the rare or regional otar. Compare also archaic Galician outo (versus the standard alto today). See also the related Spanish otero (and Portuguese outeiro).
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