altri
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin alterī, dative singular of alter (“other”).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
altri
Related terms
References
- “altri” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “altri”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Friulian
Etymology
Adjective
altri
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈal.tri/[1]
- Rhymes: -altri
- Hyphenation: àl‧tri
Pronoun
altri m sg (archaic)
- (indefinite) someone else, another
- (indefinite) someone, somebody
- (when referring to someone whose name one doesn't want to utter) the other, he/she
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto V”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 80-81; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- O anime affanate,
venite a noi parlar, s'altri (Dio) nol niega !- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
Usually only found as subject, can sometimes be found after a preposition.
Determiner
altri
- masculine plural of altro
Pronoun
altri
- masculine plural of altro
References
- ^ abbiccì in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025
- altri in Treccani.it – Enciclopedia Dantesca (1970), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈaɫ.triː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈal.tri]
Determiner
altrī
- inflection of alter:
- nominative/vocative masculine plural
- dative masculine/feminine/neuter singular