alter

• vt.変える、変える
• vi.
• n. （英語）Ault; （ドイツ語、チェコ語、ポルトガル語、エストニア語、リトアニア語、ラトビア語、ロシア語、スペイン語、露西亜語）Alter.

根源 al, 異なる。-alter、比較接尾辞。

alter

alter: [14] Alter comes from the Latin word for ‘other (of two)’, alter. In late Latin a verb was derived from this, alterāre, which English acquired via French altérer. Latin alter (which also gave French autre and English alternate [16], alternative [17], altercation [14], and altruism, not to mention alter ego) was formed from the root *al- (source of Latin alius – from which English gets alien, alias, and alibi – Greek allos ‘other’, and English else) and the comparative suffix *-tero-, which occurs also in English other.

Hence the underlying meaning of Latin alter (and, incidentally, of English other) is ‘more other’, with the implication of alternation between the two.
=> alias, alien, alternative, altruism, else

alter (v.)

late 14c., "to change (something)," from Old French alterer "change, alter," from Medieval Latin alterare "to change," from Latin alter "the other (of the two)," from PIE *al- "beyond" (see alias (adv.)) + comparative suffix -ter (as in other). Intransitive sense "to become otherwise" first recorded 1580s. Related: Altered; altering.

1. She is，first and foremost，her husband 's alter ego.

彼女はまず夫の知己である。

2.The current division of labor between workers and management will alter .

現在の労働者と管理部門の役割が変わります。

3.Barry Humphries 's alter ego Dame Edna has taken the US by storm.

バリー?ハンフリーはエドナ夫人役で全米を騒がせた。

4.He denounces people who urge him to alter his ways.

彼は習慣を変えるように促す人を非難した。

5.He is unlikely to alter his game plan.

彼は自分の戦略を変えることはできない。