alabastro

Esperanto

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.
  • 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

Latin

Noun

alabastrō

  1. dative singular of alabastrum
  2. ablative singular of alabastrum

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Noun

alabastro m

  1. alabaster

See also

Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

alabastro m (plural alabastros)

  1. alabaster (variety of gypsum)

Tagalog

Etymology

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”).

Noun

alabastro

  1. alabaster
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