retable

English

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin retrotabulum

Noun

retable (plural retables)

1. A table or shelf behind an altar, on which are placed images or holy objects
2. A 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
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• Manx: skelloo altaragh f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: altertavle m

  Nynorsk: altartavle m

• Polish: nastawa ołtarzowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: retábulo (pt) m
• Romanian: retablu m
• Russian: ретабло (ru) n (retablo)
• Slovak: retabulum n
• Slovene: retabel
• Spanish: retablo (es) m
• Swedish: retabel n, altaruppsats c

reredos — see reredos

Etymology 2

re- +‎ table

Verb

1. (transitive) To table again.

   Politicians are keen to retable the bill.

Anagrams

• bleater

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.tabl/

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.