alabastrum

alabastrum (plural alabastra or alabastrums)

1. An alabastron, or ancient pottery container for oil.
2. (botany) A flower bud^[1]

• “alabastrum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.ɫaˈbas.trũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.laˈbas.t̪rum]

alabastrum n (genitive alabastrī); second declension

1. alternative form of alabaster

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• → Hungarian: alabástrom

• "alabastrum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “alabastrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “alabastrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin