alabastrum

English

Noun

alabastrum (plural alabastra or alabastrums)

  1. An alabastron, or ancient pottery container for oil.
  2. (botany) A flower bud.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for alabastrum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Noun

alabastrum n (genitive alabastrī); second declension

  1. Alternative form of alabaster

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative alabastrum alabastra
Genitive alabastrī alabastrōrum
Dative alabastrō alabastrīs
Accusative alabastrum alabastra
Ablative alabastrō alabastrīs
Vocative alabastrum alabastra

References
  • alabastrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • alabastrum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • alabastrum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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