alt.
joint; juncture
Meaning & usage
joint; juncture
joint, knuckle
knot (in wood)
hillock
bit (of land, tobacco, etc.)
stumpy person
paragraph; section (of act, etc.)
article; clause
Where this word comes from
From Old Irish alt (“joint, articulation”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸaltu- (“joint”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”). Cognate with Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌻𐌸𐌰𐌽 (falþan, “to fold”) and Ancient Greek πέπλος (péplos, “woven cloth”). The sense “article” is a semantic loan from Latin articulus, itself a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron).
articulate, joint
Where this word comes from
From Old Irish alt (“joint, articulation”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸaltu- (“joint”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”). Cognate with Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌻𐌸𐌰𐌽 (falþan, “to fold”) and Ancient Greek πέπλος (péplos, “woven cloth”). The sense “article” is a semantic loan from Latin articulus, itself a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron).
alto
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Italian alto.
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