Altvater
German, noun
Altvater is spelled A-L-T-V-A-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 120,168th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Altvater is a German masculine noun meaning “primogenitor, forefather, patriarch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Altvater mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprimogenitor, forefather, patriarch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Altvater
- Altvaters genitive
- Altväter plural
- Altvätern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Altvater in German?
Altvater appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Altvater0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Germanmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).