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, 2008–2025

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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish alabastro (“alabaster”), from Latin alabastrum, from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρος (alábastros), from earlier ἀλάβαστος (alábastos). This may further derive from Egyptian ꜥj-r-bꜣstjt (“vessel of the Egyptian goddess Bast”) but this is doubtful.

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

alabastro (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜊᜐ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜇᜓ)

1. alabaster

• “alabastro”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 20