alabastro

• IPA^(key): [alaˈbastro]

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

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.

• alabastra; made of alabaster, white, ghostly

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

alabastro m (plural alabastri)

1. (mineralogy) alabaster

• alabastraio

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

alabastrō

1. dative/ablative singular of alabastrum

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

alabastro m (plural alabastros)

1. alabaster

• gipsita

• “alabastro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

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”).

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

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

alabastro m (plural alabastros)

1. alabaster (variety of gypsum)

• → Tagalog: alabastro

• “alabastro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from Spanish alabastro (“alabaster”), from Old French alabastre, from Latin alabaster (“box for perfume made of alabaster”), 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”).

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

alabastro (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜊᜐ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜇᜓ)

1. alabaster