retablo

English

Noun

retablo (plural retablos)

  1. A votive picture, especially one displayed above and behind the altar in a church.

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

Derived from Latin retrotabulum (rear table), from retro (backwards) + tabula (table).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [reˈtablo]
  • Rhymes: -ablo
  • Hyphenation: re‧ta‧blo

Noun

retablo (accusative singular retablon, plural retabloj, accusative plural retablojn)

  1. altarpiece, retable

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /reˈta.blo/
  • Rhymes: -ablo
  • Hyphenation: re‧tà‧blo

Noun

retablo m (plural retabli)

  1. retablo
  2. retable, reredos

See also

Further reading

  • retablo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  • retablo in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • retablo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • retàblo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • retablo in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  • retablo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Spanish

Etymology

From Catalan retaule, from Late Latin retaulus, from Latin retrotabulum, from retrō + tabula.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /reˈtablo/ [reˈt̪a.β̞lo]
  • Rhymes: -ablo
  • Syllabification: re‧ta‧blo

Noun

retablo m (plural retablos)

  1. tableau
  2. retable, reredos

Descendants

  • Portuguese: retábulo

Further reading

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