retable

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French retable, ultimately from Medieval Latin retrotabulum.

Noun

retable (plural retables)

A table or shelf behind an altar, on which are placed images or holy objects.
Synonym: reredos

Translations

table or shelf behind an altar

Basque: erretaula
Catalan: retaule (ca) m
Czech: retabulum n
Danish: altertavle (da) c
Dutch: retabel (nl) n
Esperanto: retablo (eo)
Finnish: alttarikaappi
French: retable (fr) m
German: Altarretabel (de) n
Greek: ντοσάλε n (ntosále)
Hungarian: retabló
Irish: clabhar altóra m
Italian: dossale (it) m, retablo m, trittico (it) m, polittico (it) m
Manx: skelloo altaragh f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: altertavle m

Nynorsk: altartavle m
Polish: nastawa ołtarzowa (pl) f
Portuguese: retábulo (pt) m
Romanian: retablu m
Russian: ретабло (ru) n (retablo)
Slovak: retabulum n
Slovene: retabel
Spanish: retablo (es) m
Swedish: retabel n, altaruppsats c

Etymology 2

re- +‎ table

Verb

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

Elberta, bearlet, bleater

French

Etymology

Calque of Old Occitan retaule. Compare Catalan retaule.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁə.tabl/
Audio (file)

Noun

retable m (plural retables)

retable, reredos

Further reading

“retable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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