lavabo

English

Etymology

From the Christian ritual, which was traditionally accompanied in Catholicism by a recitation of Psalm 25:6, which in Latin begins with the word lavābō (“I will wash”). The sense of "room with a toilet" developed under the influence of lavatory and lav.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləˈveɪbəʊ/

Noun

lavabo (plural lavabos or lavaboes)

1. (Christianity) A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist.

   Synonym: lavatory

2. (Christianity) The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual.
   • '1870, Daniel Rock, Textile Fabrics, p. 203:

     These small liturgical towels got […] the name of Lavabo cloths or Lavaboes.

3. A washbasin, particularly (Christianity) the one in a church used in the ritual.

   Synonym: washbasin

   • 1885, Walter Horatio Peter, Marius the Epicurean, Bk. iv, Ch. xxiii:

     […] the […] pontiff, as he […] moved his hands […] at the Lavabo, or at the various benedictions […]

4. (architecture) A trough used for washing at some medieval monasteries.
5. (humorous, euphemistic) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom

   • 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poision, Ch. xiv, p. 177:

     Mr. Pond fussed out and she heard the door of the little lavabo in the passage open with a loud creak.

Translations

church washbasin

• French: lavabo (fr) m
• German: Lavabo n
• Greek: φιάλη αγιασμού f (fiáli agiasmoú)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: lavabo (it) m
• Russian: рукомо́йник (ru) m (rukomójnik)

lavatory — see lavatory

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ləˈβa.βu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ləˈva.bo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [laˈva.bo]

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)

1. lavabo, washbasin, sink
2. toilet

   Synonym: vàter

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: la‧va‧bo

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabo's, diminutive lavabootje n)

1. (Belgium) sink, washbasin

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lavābō (“I will wash”), first-person singular future active indicative of lavō, lavāre (“wash, bathe”, verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.va.bo/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)

1. washbasin

Descendants

• → German: Lavabo
• → Vietnamese: la-va-bô

Further reading

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

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Italian

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabi or lavabo)

1. washbasin, in particular of bathroom
2. lavabo

Synonyms

• lavandino

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) lavābō

1. first-person singular future active indicative of lavō

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Norman

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lavābō (“I will wash”), first-person singular future active indicative of lavō, lavāre (“wash, bathe”).

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)

1. (Jersey) washbasin

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lavabo (“I shall clean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.ˈva.bu/
• Rhymes: -abu

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)

1. lavabo (washbasin, especially one used for ceremonious washing)
2. lavatory (room containing a toilet)

Synonyms

• (lavabo): lavatório
• (lavatory): toalete, banheiro, lavatório, WC

Related terms

• lavar

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laʋǎboː/
• Hyphenation: la‧va‧bo

Noun

lavàbō m (Cyrillic spelling лава̀бо̄)

1. sink, washbasin
2. lavabo

Declension

Declension of lavabo

	singular	plural
nominative	lavabo	lavaboi
genitive	lavaboa	lavaboa
dative	lavabou	lavaboima
accusative	lavabo	lavaboe
vocative	lavabou / lavaboe	lavaboi
locative	lavabou	lavaboima
instrumental	lavaboom	lavaboima

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lavābo, first person singular future indicative of lavāre

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)

1. washbasin

See also

• lavamanos m

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Turkish

Etymology

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Noun

lavabo (definite accusative lavaboyu, plural lavabolar)

1. washbasin

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	lavabo
Definite accusative	lavaboyu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lavabo	lavabolar
Definite accusative	lavaboyu	lavaboları
Dative	lavaboya	lavabolara
Locative	lavaboda	lavabolarda
Ablative	lavabodan	lavabolardan
Genitive	lavabonun	lavaboların