Altman

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: 'ŏlt-mən, IPA^(key): /ˈɔːltmən/

Proper noun

Altman (plural Altmans)

1. A surname.
   • 2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], archived from the original on 2 February 2017:

     OpenAI, the nonprofit that Altman founded with Elon Musk, is a hedged bet on the end of human predominance—a kind of strategic-defense initiative to protect us from our own creations.

Derived terms

• Altmanesque

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Altman is the 2217^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 16448 individuals. Altman is most common among White (92.21%) individuals.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaltman]

Proper noun

Altman m anim (female equivalent Altmanová)

1. a male surname from German

Declension

Declension of Altman (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Altman	Altmané, Altmani
genitive	Altmana	Altmanů
dative	Altmanovi	Altmanům
accusative	Altmana	Altmany
vocative	Altmane	Altmané, Altmani
locative	Altmanovi	Altmanech
instrumental	Altmanem	Altmany

Further reading

• “Altman”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
• Matúšová, Jana (2015), Německá vlastní jména v češtině [German proper nouns in Czech] (in Czech), Prague: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, →ISBN, page 26

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /altman/, [ˈaltman]
• Rhymes: -altman
• Hyphenation: Al‧tman

Proper noun

Altman m pers (female equivalent Altmanová)

1. a male surname from German

Declension

Declension of Altman
(pattern chlap)

	singular	plural 1	plural 2
nominative	Altman	Altmanovia	Altmanovci
genitive	Altmana	Altmanov	Altmanovcov
dative	Altmanovi	Altmanom	Altmanovcom
accusative	Altmana	Altmanov	Altmanovcov
locative	Altmanovi	Altmanoch	Altmanovcoch
instrumental	Altmanom	Altmanmi	Altmanovcami

Further reading

• “Altman”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026