retable
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French retable, ultimately from Medieval Latin retrotabulum.
Noun edit
retable (plural retables)
Translations edit
table or shelf behind an altar
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Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
retable (third-person singular simple present retables, present participle retabling, simple past and past participle retabled)
- (transitive) To table again.
- Politicians are keen to retable the bill.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Calque of Old Occitan retaule. Compare Catalan retaule.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
retable m (plural retables)
Further reading edit
- “retable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.