retablo
English
Noun
retablo (plural retablos)
- A votive picture, especially one displayed above and behind the altar in a church.
Anagrams
- La Trobe, bloater, latrobe, rotable
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)
- altarpiece, retable
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈta.blo/
- Rhymes: -ablo
- Hyphenation: re‧tà‧blo
Noun
retablo m (plural retabli)
- retablo
- retable, reredos
See also
- trittico
- polittico
Anagrams
- Alberto, bertola, blatero, blaterò
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)
- tableau
- retable, reredos
Descendants
- → Portuguese: retábulo
Further reading
- “retablo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014