lavabo

Etymology

From the Christian ritual, which was traditionally accompanied in Catholicism by a recitation of Psalm 25:6, which in Latin begins with the word lavābō (“I will wash”).^[1][2] The sense of "room with a toilet" developed under the influence of lavatory and lav.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ləˈveɪbəʊ/

Noun

lavabo (plural lavabos or lavaboes)

1. (Christianity) A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the eucharist.
2. (Christianity) The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual.
   • '1870, Daniel Rock, Textile Fabrics, p. 203:

     These small liturgical towels got […] the name of Lavabo cloths or Lavaboes.

3. A washbasin, particularly (Christianity) the one in a church used in the ritual.
   • 1885, Walter Horatio Peter, Marius the Epicurean, Bk. iv, Ch. xxiii:

     […] the […] pontiff, as he […] moved his hands […] at the Lavabo, or at the various benedictions […]

4. (architecture) A trough used for washing at some medieval monasteries.
5. (humorous, euphemistic) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
   • 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poision, Ch. xiv, p. 177:

     Mr. Pond fussed out and she heard the door of the little lavabo in the passage open with a loud creak.

References

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)

1. lavabo, washbasin, sink

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: la‧va‧bo

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabo's, diminutive lavabootje n)

1. (Belgium) sink, washbasin

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lavābō (“I will wash”), first-person singular future active indicative of lavō, lavāre (“wash, bathe”, verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.va.bo/

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)

1. washbasin

Further reading

• “lavabo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabi or lavabo)

1. washbasin, in particular of bathroom
2. lavabo

Verb

lavābō

1. first-person singular future active indicative of lavō

Etymology

From Latin lavābō (“I will wash”), first-person singular future active indicative of lavō, lavāre (“wash, bathe”).

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)

1. (Jersey) washbasin

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lavabo (“I shall clean”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /la.ˈva.bu/
• Rhymes: -abu

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)

1. lavabo (washbasin, especially one used for ceremonious washing)
2. lavatory (room containing a toilet)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laʋǎboː/
• Hyphenation: la‧va‧bo

Noun

lavàbō m (Cyrillic spelling лава̀бо̄)

1. sink, washbasin
2. lavabo

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lavābo, first person singular future indicative of lavāre

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)

1. washbasin

Noun

lavabo (definite accusative lavaboyu, plural lavabolar)

1. washbasin