alterno

See also: alternó and alternò

Catalan

Verb

alterno

  1. first-person singular present indicative of alternar

Galician

Verb

alterno

  1. first-person singular present indicative of alternar

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈtɛr.no/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrno
  • Hyphenation: al‧tèr‧no

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin alternus, from alter (other).

Adjective

alterno (feminine alterna, masculine plural alterni, feminine plural alterne)

  1. alternate, alternating, every other
  2. (mathematics, botany) alternate

Etymology 2

Verb

alterno

  1. first-person singular present indicative of alternare

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From alternus (one after the other, alternate) +‎ .

Pronunciation

Verb

alternō (present infinitive alternāre, perfect active alternāvī, supine alternātum); first conjugation

  1. to do one thing and then another, do by turns, interchange, alternate
  2. to hesitate, vacillate

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: alternar
  • English: alternate
  • French: alterner
  • Friulian: alternâ
  • Galician: alternar
  • Italian: alternare
  • Occitan: alternar
  • Piedmontese: alterné
  • Portuguese: alternar
  • Spanish: alternar

References

  • alterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • alterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • alterno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Verb

alterno

  1. first-person singular present indicative of alternar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈteɾno/ [al̪ˈt̪eɾ.no]
  • Rhymes: -eɾno
  • Syllabification: al‧ter‧no

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin alternus.

Adjective

alterno (feminine alterna, masculine plural alternos, feminine plural alternas)

  1. alternate, alternative
    Synonym: alternativo
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

alterno

  1. first-person singular present indicative of alternar

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alterno, from Latin alternus.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔalˈteɾno/ [ʔɐlˈt̪ɛɾ.n̪o]
  • Rhymes: -eɾno
  • Syllabification: al‧ter‧no

Noun

alterno (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜆᜒᜇ᜔ᜈᜓ)

  1. alternate; alternative; substitute
    Synonyms: alternatibo, kahalili, panghalili, sustituto

Further reading

  • alterno”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 27