alabastro

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [alaˈbastro]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -astro
• Hyphenation: a‧la‧bas‧tro

Noun

alabastro (accusative singular alabastron, plural alabastroj, accusative plural alabastrojn)

1. alabaster

   Li kopiis La Pietá de Michelangelo en alabastro.

   He copied Michaelangelo's Pietá in alabaster.

Related terms

• alabastra; made of alabaster, white, ghostly

Italian

Etymology

From Latin alabastrum, or borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρος (alábastros), from earlier ἀλάβαστος (alábastos, “vase made of alabaster”).

Noun

alabastro m (plural alabastri)

1. (mineralogy) alabaster

Derived terms

• alabastraio

Further reading

• alabastro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

alabastrō

1. dative/ablative singular of alabastrum

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin alabastrum, from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρος (alábastros), from earlier ἀλάβαστος (alábastos, “vase made of alabaster”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.laˈbas.tɾu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.laˈbas.tɾu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.laˈbaʃ.tɾu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.laˈbas.tɾo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.lɐˈbaʃ.tɾu/ [ɐ.lɐˈβaʃ.tɾu]

Noun

alabastro m (plural alabastros)

1. alabaster

See also

• gipsita

Further reading

• “alabastro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Cabeza de alabastro

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin alabastrum, from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρος (alábastros), from earlier ἀλάβαστος (alábastos, “vase made of alabaster”). This may further derive from Egyptian ꜥj-r-bꜣstjt (“vessel of the Egyptian goddess Bast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alaˈbastɾo/ [a.laˈβ̞as.t̪ɾo]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -astɾo
• Syllabification: a‧la‧bas‧tro

Noun

alabastro m (plural alabastros)

1. alabaster (variety of gypsum)

Derived terms

• alabastrado
• alabastrino
• rosa de alabastro

Descendants

• → Tagalog: alabastro

Further reading

• “alabastro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alabastro (“alabaster”), from Latin alabastrum, from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρος (alábastros), from earlier ἀλάβαστος (alábastos). This may further derive from Egyptian ꜥj-r-bꜣstjt (“vessel of the Egyptian goddess Bast”) but this is doubtful.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔalaˈbastɾo/ [ʔɐ.lɐˈbas.t̪ɾo]
• Rhymes: -astɾo
• Syllabification: a‧la‧bas‧tro

Noun

alabastro (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜊᜐ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜇᜓ)

1. alabaster

Further reading

• “alabastro”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 20