alabastre

alabastre (not comparable)

1. Obsolete form of alabaster.

alabastre (usually uncountable, plural alabastres)

1. Obsolete form of alabaster.

• alabaster

Probably borrowed from Latin alabastrum, from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρος (alábastros).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.ləˈβas.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.ləˈbas.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.laˈbas.tɾe]

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alabastre m (plural alabastres)

1. alabaster

• alabastrí

• “alabastre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• alabaster, alabaustre, alablastre, allabauster

From Old French alabastre, from Latin alabaster, from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρος (alábastros), from earlier ἀλάβαστος (alábastos).

• IPA^(key): /aləˈbastrə/, /aləˈbastər/, /aləˈblastər/

alabastre (uncountable)

1. alabaster
2. alabaster box

• English: alabaster
• Scots: alabaster

• “alabastre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• aubastre, alabaustre, albastre

From Latin alabastrum, from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρος (alábastros). This form was probably taken as a semi-learned term. Cf. also the variant aubastre, which may represent a more popular form.

alabastre oblique singular, m (oblique plural alabastres, nominative singular alabastres, nominative plural alabastre)

1. alabaster

• Middle French: albastre
  • French: albâtre
• → Middle English: alabastre, alabaster, alabaustre, alablastre, allabauster
  • English: alabaster