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Alter is both a surname and a given name. German and Jewish ( Ashkenazic ): distinguishing epithet for the older of two bearers of the same personal name. For the Ashkenazim: from the Yiddish personal name Alter, an inflected form of alt (‘old’).
An altar is a table or platform for the presentation of religious offerings, ... Etymology. The modern English word altar was derived from Middle English altar, ...
Alterity is a philosophical and anthropological term meaning "otherness", that is, the "other of two" (Latin alter). [1] It is also increasingly being used in media to express something other than "sameness", or something outside of tradition or convention. [2]
An alter ego (Latin for "other I") means an alternate self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality. Finding one's alter ego will require finding one's other self, one with a different personality. Additionally, the altered states of the ego may themselves be referred to as alterations.
Alter (name), people named Alter; Alter (automobile) Alter (crater), a lunar crater; Alter ego, or "alter" in popular usage, a "second self" Archbishop Alter High School, a Roman Catholic high school in Kettering, Ohio
This etymology is dubious for phonological reasons, as nemetes could not become Slavic němьcь. [17] In Russian, the adjective for "German", nemetskiy (немецкий) comes from the same Slavic root while the name for the country is Germaniya (Германия).
The altar was not found assembled in situ, but was discovered in secondary use, the stones of the altar been incorporated into a later-date wall. [ 9 ] As of 1975, there was an unresolved debate about the dating of the altar between Professor Aharoni and Professor Yigael Yadin of the Hebrew University .
A baldachin, or baldaquin (from Italian: baldacchino), is a canopy of state typically placed over an altar or throne. It had its beginnings as a cloth canopy, [ a ] but in other cases it is a sturdy, permanent architectural feature, particularly over high altars in cathedrals , where such a structure is more correctly called a ciborium when it ...