Alta Estas Pli La Ol Li Higher Mi

high
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/high
(in altitude)
tall
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tall
high
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/high
(in pitch)

Pronunciation

• IPA
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
  (
  key
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
  ): /ˈalta/
• Hyphenation: al‧ta
• Rhymes:
  -alta

• Audio

  ( file https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:Eo-alta.ogg )

Adjective

alta (accusative singular

1. high
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/high
   (in altitude)
   • 2003, Hans-Georg Kaiser (translator), chapter 46, in Mortula ŝipo, Tyresö: Inko, translation of

     Das Totenschiff
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_Ship

     by

     B. Traven
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Traven

     ,

     →ISBN
     https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9173031372

     :

     La suno leviĝis. Freŝe laviĝinte ĝi eliris el sia marbanejo supren en la altan ĉielon.

     The sun rose up. Freshly washed, it left its ocean bath and went up into the high sky

2. high
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/high
   (in pitch)

   Mi ne povas atingi la altajn tonojn de tiu kanto.

   I can’t reach the high notes in that song.

3. tall
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tall
   • 1906,
     L. L. Zamenhof
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof
     , speech to the 2nd Esperanto Congress in Geneva:

     Terure altaj kaj dikaj estas ankoraŭ la interpopolaj muroj.

     The walls between the people of the world are still dreadfully tall and wide.

4. (
   figuratively
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#figurative
   )
   high-minded
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/high-minded
   ,
   noble
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noble

   alta celo

   a noble goal

Antonyms

• malalta
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malalta#Esperanto

Related terms

• altaĵo
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alta%C4%B5o#Esperanto
  (“hill, rise, elevated area”)
• alte
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alte#Esperanto
  (“high, highly”)
• altebenaĵo
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/altebena%C4%B5o#Esperanto
  (“plateau”)
• alteco
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alteco#Esperanto
  (“height; highness”)
• altejo
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/altejo#Esperanto
  (“height, elevated area”)
• altepreza
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/altepreza#Esperanto
  (“high-priced, costly”)
• altestimi
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/altestimi#Esperanto
  (“to respect”)
• altgrada
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/altgrada#Esperanto
  (“high (in temperature, rank)”)
• altgrade
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/altgrade#Esperanto
  (“to a high degree”)
• alti
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alti#Esperanto
  (“to be high”)
• altigi
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/altigi#Esperanto
  (“raise, elevate”)
• altiĝi
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alti%C4%9Di#Esperanto
  (“rise”)
• altkreska
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/altkreska#Esperanto
  (“tall”)
• altranga
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/altranga#Esperanto
  (“high-ranking; upper-class”)
• alto
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alto#Esperanto
  (“altitude; elevation; height”)
• alttaksi
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alttaksi#Esperanto
  (“to appreciate, value”)
• altvalora
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/altvalora#Esperanto
  (“valuable”)
• plialtigi
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plialtigi#Esperanto
  (“raise; heighten; increase”)
• plialtiĝi
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plialti%C4%9Di#Esperanto
  (“rise, get higher”)
• tonalto
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tonalto#Esperanto
  (“pitch (acoustics)”)