alabastron

English

Greek glass alabastron

Etymology

Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρον (alábastron)

Noun

alabastron (plural alabastrons or alabastra)

1. A kind of ancient pottery vase used for holding oils, and originally made from alabaster.
   • 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 67:

     The discovery, in an early deposit near the Northern Bath, in company with the serpentine vases described above, of the lid of an alabastron with the cartouche of the Hyksos king Khyan.

Translations

type of vase

• Catalan: alabastre (ca) m
• Chinese:

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• Finnish: alabastron
• French: alabastre (fr) m
• German: Alabastron (de) n
• Greek: αλάβαστρο (el) n (alávastro)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: alabastron (pl) m
• Slovak: alabastrón m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• alabastron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Esperanto

Noun

alabastron

1. accusative singular of alabastro

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρον (alábastron). First attested in 1888.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.laˈbas.trɔn/

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• Rhymes: -astrɔn
• Syllabification: a‧la‧bas‧tron

Noun

alabastron m inan

1. (historical) alabastron

   Hypernym: naczynie

Declension

Declension of alabastron

	singular	plural
nominative	alabastron	alabastrony
genitive	alabastronu	alabastronów
dative	alabastronowi	alabastronom
accusative	alabastron	alabastrony
instrumental	alabastronem	alabastronami
locative	alabastronie	alabastronach
vocative	alabastronie	alabastrony

Related terms

adjective

• alabastrowy

 

adverb

• alabastrowo

 

nouns

• alabaster
• alabastrowość

 

Further reading

• alabastron in Polish dictionaries at PWN