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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɒl.tə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɔːl.tə/
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• General-American: /ˈɔl.təɹ/
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• cot-caught-merger: /ˈɑl.təɹ/
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• rhymes with -ɒltə(ɹ)
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• rhymes with -ɔːltə(ɹ)
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• homophone: altar
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• CMU ARPABET: AO1 L T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Probably from alter ego.

From Old French alterer (French altérer), from Medieval Latin alterāre (“to make other”), from Latin alter (“the other”), from al- (seen in alius (“other”), alienus (“of another”), etc.; see alias, alien, etc.) + compar. suffix -ter.

89 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: غَيَّرَ (ḡayyara) — to change the form or structure of
• Asturian: alteriar — to change the form or structure of
• Asturian: alterar — to change the form or structure of
• Belarusian: змяня́ць (zmjanjácʹ) — to change the form or structure of
• Belarusian: змяні́ць (zmjanícʹ) — to change the form or structure of
• Bulgarian: изме́ням (izménjam) — to change the form or structure of
• Bulgarian: изменя́ (izmenjá) — to change the form or structure of
• Bulgarian: проме́ням (proménjam) — to change the form or structure of
• Bulgarian: променя́ (promenjá) — to change the form or structure of
• Catalan: alterar — to change the form or structure of
• Chinese Mandarin: 改變 /改变 (gǎibiàn) — to change the form or structure of
• Chinese Mandarin: 轉變 /转变 (zhuǎnbiàn) — to change the form or structure of
• Czech: měnit — to change the form or structure of
• Czech: změnit — to change the form or structure of
• Czech: proměňovat — to change the form or structure of
• Czech: proměnit — to change the form or structure of
• Esperanto: aliigi — to change the form or structure of
• Esperanto: ŝanĝi — to change the form or structure of
• Esperanto: aliformi — to change the form or structure of
• Esperanto: aliformigi — to change the form or structure of
• Finnish: muuttaa — to change the form or structure of
• French: changer — to change the form or structure of
• French: altérer — to change the form or structure of
• French: modifier — to change the form or structure of
• Galician: alterar — to change the form or structure of
• German: abändern — to change the form or structure of
• German: ändern — to change the form or structure of
• Hebrew: שינה — to change the form or structure of
• Hebrew: שִׁנָּה (shiná) — to change the form or structure of
• Hungarian: módosít — to change the form or structure of
• Ido: alterar — to change the form or structure of
• Japanese: 変える (kaeru) — to change the form or structure of
• Japanese: 変更する (henkō suru) — to change the form or structure of
• Japanese: 直す (naosu) — to change the form or structure of
• Korean: 변경하다 (byeon'gyeonghada) — to change the form or structure of
• Korean: 바꾸다 (bakkuda) — to change the form or structure of
• Korean: 개조하다 (gaejohada) — to change the form or structure of
• Korean: 달라지다 (dallajida) — to change the form or structure of
• Korean: 변경되다 (byeon'gyeongdoeda) — to change the form or structure of
• Korean: 고치다 (gochida) — to change the form or structure of
• Korean: 거세하다 (geosehada) — to change the form or structure of
• Macedonian: променува (promenuva) — to change the form or structure of
• Macedonian: промени (promeni) — to change the form or structure of
• Māori: panoni — to change the form or structure of
• Māori: whakarerekē — to change the form or structure of
• Māori: whakaumu — to change the form or structure of
• Odia: ବଦଳାଇବା (badaḷāibā) — to change the form or structure of
• Polish: zmieniać — to change the form or structure of
• Polish: zmienić — to change the form or structure of
• Polish: przerabiać — to change the form or structure of
• Polish: przerobić — to change the form or structure of
• Portuguese: alterar — to change the form or structure of
• Portuguese: mudar — to change the form or structure of
• Portuguese: modificar — to change the form or structure of
• Russian: изменя́ть (izmenjátʹ) — to change the form or structure of
• Russian: измени́ть (izmenítʹ) — to change the form or structure of
• Russian: меня́ть (menjátʹ) — to change the form or structure of
• Russian: поменя́ть (pomenjátʹ) — to change the form or structure of
• Russian: переде́лывать (peredélyvatʹ) — to change the form or structure of
• Russian: переде́лать (peredélatʹ) — to change the form or structure of
• Scottish Gaelic: mùth — to change the form or structure of
• Serbo-Croatian: изме́нити — to change the form or structure of
• Serbo-Croatian: измије́нити — to change the form or structure of
• Serbo-Croatian: промењи́вати — to change the form or structure of
• Serbo-Croatian: промјењи́вати — to change the form or structure of
• Serbo-Croatian: проме́нити — to change the form or structure of
• Serbo-Croatian: промије́нити — to change the form or structure of
• Serbo-Croatian: izmeniti — to change the form or structure of
• Serbo-Croatian: izmijéniti — to change the form or structure of
• Serbo-Croatian: promenjívati — to change the form or structure of
• Serbo-Croatian: promjenjívati — to change the form or structure of
• Serbo-Croatian: proméniti — to change the form or structure of
• Serbo-Croatian: promijéniti — to change the form or structure of
• Slovak: meniť — to change the form or structure of
• Slovak: zmeniť — to change the form or structure of
• Slovene: spremeniti — to change the form or structure of
• Spanish: alterar — to change the form or structure of
• Spanish: cambiar — to change the form or structure of
• Spanish: modificar — to change the form or structure of
• Swedish: modifiera — to change the form or structure of
• Swedish: förändra — to change the form or structure of
• Swedish: ändra — to change the form or structure of
• Tibetan: བརྗེ་སྒྱུར་གཏོང (brje sgyur gtong) — to change the form or structure of
• Tibetan: བཟོ་བཅོས་གཏོང (bzo bcos gtong) — to change the form or structure of
• Tibetan: བཟོ་བཅོས (bzo bcos) — to change the form or structure of
• Ukrainian: змі́нювати (zmínjuvaty) — to change the form or structure of
• Ukrainian: міня́ти (minjáty) — to change the form or structure of
• Ukrainian: зміни́ти (zminýty) — to change the form or structure of
• Esperanto: ŝanĝiĝi — to become different