The corpus record — Latin

alabaster

alabaster · m

A box

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Where it lives

Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Naturalis Historia 9 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

ălăbaster — Lewis & Short

ălăbaster, tri, m. (ălăba-stra, n.), = a)la/bastros, -ra.

plur. also plur.

I A box or casket for perfumes, tapering to a point at the top, a box for unguents: alabaster plenus unguenti, * Cic. Ac. Post. ap. Non. 545, 15: mulier habens alabastrum unguenti, Vulg. Matt. 26, 7; ib. Marc. 14, 3; ib. Luc. 7, 37: redolent alabastra, Mart. 11, 8, 9; Plin. 13, 2, 3, § 19.—Hence,

II The form of a rose-bud, pointed at the top: in virides alabastros fastigato, Plin. 21, 4, 10, § 14.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. alabaster (scan p. 43; entry #339).

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