altra

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈal.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈal.tɾa]
• Homophone: altre (Balearic, Central)

altra

1. feminine singular of altre

alt +‎ -ra

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒltrɒ]
• Hyphenation: alt‧ra

altra

1. sublative singular of alt

Borrowed from French autre, Italian altro, Spanish otro, from Latin alter.

• IPA^(key): /alˈtra/

altra

1. other, another

   Me prizas l'altra libro plue.

   I like the other book more.

• diferanta (“different”)

• ita (“that, those”)

• altruismo (“altruism”)
• altruisto (“altruist”)

From Middle Irish altra (“foster father”),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *altrawū (“foster uncle”) (compare Welsh athro (“teacher”)), from *aleti (“feed, raise”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to nourish”)) and *awū (“uncle”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os (“maternal grandfather/uncle”)).

altra m or f (genitive singular altra, nominative plural altraí)

1. (obsolete, always masculine) foster father
2. (rare) nurse

This word has always been rare in modern Irish. The sense ‘nurse’ was revived in the late 20th century as a politically correct and gender-neutral alternative to banaltra, which contains the feminine prefix ban-. Among native Irish-speakers, however, the everyday term was, and still is, banaltra. A male nurse may be called banaltra fir (literally “nurse of a man”).

As masculine:

As feminine:

• banaltra
• altranas

• “altra”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “altra”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 24
• “altra”, in The National Terminology Database for Irish, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU and Foras na Gaeilge, 2006–2024
• “altra”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.tra/
• Rhymes: -altra
• Hyphenation: àl‧tra

altra f

1. feminine singular of altro

• latra, tarla

• altera
• altrene

altra n pl

1. definite plural of alter