alabastrum

== English == === Noun === alabastrum (plural alabastra or alabastrums) An alabastron, or ancient pottery container for oil. (botany) A flower bud === References === “alabastrum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.ɫaˈbas.trũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.laˈbas.trum] === Noun === alabastrum n (genitive alabastrī); second declension alternative form of alabaster ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== → Hungarian: alabástrom === References === "alabastrum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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