alto
Meaning
-
- tall
- high
- loud
- upper, top
- senior (rank)
Concepts
high place
see en alto
see en lo alto
see en lo alto de
upper floor
upper part
very big
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
Frequency
Hyphenated as
al‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈalto/
Etymology
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).
Cognate with Galician
outo
Cognate with Spanish
otero
Cognate with Portuguese
outeiro
Borrowed from German
halt
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