retable

Borrowed from French retable, ultimately from Medieval Latin retrotabulum.

• IPA^(key): /rɪˈteɪbəl/
• Rhymes: -eɪbəl

retable (plural retables)

1. A table or shelf behind an altar, on which are placed images or holy objects.

   Synonym: reredos

From re- +‎ table.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /riːˈteɪbəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /riˈteɪbəl/
• Rhymes: -eɪbəl

retable (third-person singular simple present retables, present participle retabling, simple past and past participle retabled)

1. (transitive) To table again.

   Politicians are keen to retable the bill.

• Elberta, bearlet, bleater

Calque of Old Occitan retaule. Compare Catalan retaule.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.tabl/

• Audio:

  (file)

retable m (plural retables)

1. retable, reredos

• “retable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.