altus -a -um
characterized by relatively great verticality (as either seen from below or above) [with accusative or genitive or ablative (of measurement)] [first attested in Livius Andronicus]:
Quaere · altus
altus -a -um
nourished, having been nourished
alō -ere, -uī, -tum
to feed, to nourish, to nurture