Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites. · A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary. · Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.
Inherited from Middle English auter, inherited from Old English altar and borrowed from Old French auter, both derived from Latin altāre, probably related to adolere (“burn”); thus "burning place", influenced by altus (“high”). Displaced native Middle English wēved.
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