alterno

alterno

1. first-person singular present indicative of alternar

alterno

1. first-person singular present indicative of alternar

• IPA^(key): /alˈtɛr.no/
• Rhymes: -ɛrno
• Hyphenation: al‧tèr‧no

Borrowed from Latin alternus, from alter (“other”).

alterno (feminine alterna, masculine plural alterni, feminine plural alterne)

1. alternate, alternating, every other
2. (mathematics, botany) alternate

alterno

1. first-person singular present indicative of alternare

• notarle, orlante, terlano

From alternus (“one after the other, alternate”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aɫˈtɛr.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [alˈtɛr.no]

alternō (present infinitive alternāre, perfect active alternāvī, supine alternātum); first conjugation

1. to do one thing and then another, do by turns, interchange, alternate
2. to hesitate, vacillate

• alternāmentum
• alternātim
• alternātiō
• alternātus

• “alterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “alterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “alterno”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

alterno

1. first-person singular present indicative of alternar

• IPA^(key): /alˈteɾno/ [al̪ˈt̪eɾ.no]
• Rhymes: -eɾno
• Syllabification: al‧ter‧no

Borrowed from Latin alternus.

alterno (feminine alterna, masculine plural alternos, feminine plural alternas)

1. alternate, alternative

   Synonym: alternativo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

alterno

1. first-person singular present indicative of alternar

• “alterno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish alterno, from Latin alternus.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔalˈteɾno/ [ʔɐlˈt̪ɛɾ.n̪o]
• Rhymes: -eɾno
• Syllabification: al‧ter‧no

alterno (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜆᜒᜇ᜔ᜈᜓ)

1. alternate; alternative; substitute

   Synonyms: alternatibo, kahalili, panghalili, sustituto

• “alterno”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 27