alabastro

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

alabastrō

1. dative singular of alabastrum
2. 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.

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/, [alaˈβast̪ɾo]

alabastro m (plural alabastros)

1. alabaster (variety of gypsum)

• alabastrado
• alabastrino

• “alabastro” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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”).

alabastro

1. alabaster