retablo

English

Noun

retablo (plural retablos)

1. A votive picture, especially one displayed above and behind the altar in a church.

Anagrams

• La Trobe, bloater, latrobe, rotable

Esperanto

Etymology

Derived from Latin retrotabulum (“rear table”), from retro (“backwards”) + tabula (“table”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [reˈtablo]
• Rhymes: -ablo
• Hyphenation: re‧ta‧blo

Noun

retablo (accusative singular retablon, plural retabloj, accusative plural retablojn)

1. altarpiece, retable

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈta.blo/
• Rhymes: -ablo
• Hyphenation: re‧tà‧blo

Noun

retablo m (plural retabli)

1. retablo
2. retable, reredos

See also

• trittico
• polittico

Further reading

• retablo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• retablo in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• retablo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• retàblo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• retablo in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• retablo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• Alberto, bertola, blatero, blaterò

Spanish

Etymology

From Catalan retaule, from Late Latin retaulus, from Latin retrotabulum, from retrō + tabula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈtablo/ [reˈt̪a.β̞lo]
• Rhymes: -ablo
• Syllabification: re‧ta‧blo

Noun

retablo m (plural retablos)

1. tableau
2. retable, reredos

Descendants

• → Portuguese: retábulo

Further reading

• “retablo”, 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