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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Sethe explained the form as Egyptian ꜥj-r-bꜣstjt (“vessel of the Egyptian goddess Bast”), but this is doubtful. Compare Arabic عُلْبَة (ʕulba, “box, can”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.lá.bas.tos/ → /aˈla.βas.tos/ → /aˈla.vas.tos/
Noun
ἀλάβαστος • (alábastos) m (genitive ἀλαβάστου); second declension
- globular vase without handles for holding perfumes
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Latin: alabaster (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “ἀλάβαστος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀλάβαστος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀλάβαστος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀλάβαστος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN