alabastro
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [alaˈbastro]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -astro
- Hyphenation: a‧la‧bas‧tro
Noun
alabastro (accusative singular alabastron, plural alabastroj, accusative plural alabastrojn)
- alabaster
- Li kopiis La Pietá de Michelangelo en alabastro.
- He copied Michaelangelo's Pietá in alabaster.
Related terms
- alabastra; made of alabaster, white, ghostly
Italian
Etymology
From Latin alabastrum, or borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρος (alábastros), from earlier ἀλάβαστος (alábastos, “vase made of alabaster”).
Derived terms
Further reading
- alabastro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin alabastrum, from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρος (alábastros), from earlier ἀλάβαστος (alábastos, “vase made of alabaster”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.laˈbas.tɾu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /a.laˈbaʃ.tɾu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.laˈbas.tɾo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.lɐˈbaʃ.tɾu/ [ɐ.lɐˈβaʃ.tɾu]
See also
Further reading
Spanish

Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alaˈbastɾo/ [a.laˈβ̞as.t̪ɾo]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -astɾo
- Syllabification: a‧la‧bas‧tro
Derived terms
- alabastrado
- alabastrino
- rosa de alabastro
Descendants
- → Tagalog: alabastro
Further reading
- “alabastro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish alabastro (“alabaster”), from Old French alabastre, from Latin alabaster (“box for perfume made of alabaster”), 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”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔalaˈbastɾo/ [ʔɐ.lɐˈbas.tɾo]
- Rhymes: -astɾo
- Syllabification: a‧la‧bas‧tro