retable

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French retable, ultimately from Medieval Latin retrotabulum.

Noun

retable (plural retables)

1. 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 n
• 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)

1. (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:

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Noun

retable m (plural retables)

1. retable, reredos

Further reading

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