different between offwhite vs alabaster

English

Adjective

offwhite (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of off-white

English

Alternative forms

• alabastre (obsolete)
• alablaster (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English alabastre, from Old French alabastre, from Latin alabaster (“box for perfume made of alabaster”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (alábastros), from earlier ????????? (alábastos, “vase made of alabaster”). This may further derive from Egyptian ?j-r-b?stjt (“vessel of the Egyptian goddess Bast”). The Latin suffix -aster is unrelated, but may have influenced the spelling of the borrowing from Ancient Greek (whence a direct loan could have been rendered as *alabastrus).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æl.??b??s.t?/, /?æl.??bæs.t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æl.??bæs.t?/
• Rhymes: -??st?(?), -æst?(?)

Noun

alabaster (usually uncountable, plural alabasters)

1. A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
2. (historical) A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.
3. (color) An off-white colour, like that of alabaster.

Translations

Adjective

alabaster (not comparable)

1. Made of alabaster.
2. Resembling alabaster: white, pale, translucent.

Translations

Further reading

• alabaster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• alabastre

Latin

Alternative forms

• alabastrum

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????????? (alábastros), from earlier ????????? (alábastos, “vase made of alabaster”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.la?bas.ter/, [ä??ä?bäs?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.la?bas.ter/, [?l??b?st??r]

Noun

alabaster m (genitive alabastr?); second declension

1. a box, tapering to a point at the top, for perfumes or unguents

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Descendants

References

• alabaster in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• alabaster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• alabaster in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[3]

Middle English

Noun

alabaster

1. Alternative form of alabastre

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin alabaster.

Noun

alabaster m inan

1. alabaster

Declension

Derived terms

• alabastrowy

Further reading

• alabaster in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin alabaster.

Noun

alabaster m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. alabaster

   Synonyms: alabastar, ubjel