алтарь
Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin altāre (often attested in plural form altāria).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɐɫˈtarʲ]
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Noun
алта́рь • (altárʹ) m inan (genitive алтаря́, nominative plural алтари́, genitive plural алтаре́й, relational adjective алта́рный)
- altar
- Synonym: же́ртвенник (žértvennik)
Declension
Declension of алта́рь (inan masc-form soft-stem accent-b)
Pre-reform declension of алта́рь (inan masc-form soft-stem accent-b)
Descendants
Further reading
- Kuznetsov, Sergey Alexandrovich (1998), “алтарь”, in Большой толковый словарь русского языка [Great Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Norint, →ISBN