lavabo

See also: Lavabo

English

Etymology

From the Christian ritual, which was traditionally accompanied in Catholicism by a recitation of Psalm 25:6 (Psalm 26:6, in the Hebrew and in most modern translations) which in Latin begins with the word lavābō (I will wash).[1][2] The sense of "room with a toilet" developed under the influence of lavatory and lav.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) 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, page 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, chapter XIV, in Strong Poision, page 177:
      Mr. Pond fussed out and she heard the door of the little lavabo in the passage open with a loud creak.

Translations

References

  1. "lavabo, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1902), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. "The Book of Psalms: Chapter 25" in the Latin Vulgate.

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)

  1. lavabo, washbasin, sink
  2. toilet
    Synonym: vàter
  3. (metonymically) bathroom

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: la‧va‧bo

Noun

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

  1. (Belgium) sink, washbasin

References

van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “lavabo”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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/
  • (file)

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)

  1. washbasin

Descendants

  • German: Lavabo
  • Turkish: lavabo
  • Vietnamese: la-va-bô

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laˈva.bo/
  • Rhymes: -abo
  • Hyphenation: la‧và‧bo

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabi or invariable)

  1. sink, in particular of a bathroom
  2. lavabo

Synonyms

Latin

Verb

lavābō

  1. first-person singular future active indicative of lavō

Norman

Etymology

From Latin lavābō (I will wash), first-person singular future active indicative of lavō, lavāre (wash, bathe).

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)

  1. (Jersey) washbasin

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lavābō (I shall clean).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /laˈva.bu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /laˈva.bo/
 

  • Rhymes: -abu
  • Hyphenation: la‧va‧bo

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)

  1. lavabo (washbasin, especially one used for ceremonious washing)
    Synonym: lavatório
  2. (chiefly in plural) lavatory (room containing a toilet)
    Synonyms: casa de banho, banheiro, lavatório, WC

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lavàbō m (Cyrillic spelling лава̀бо̄)

  1. sink, washbasin
  2. lavabo

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lavābō, first person singular future indicative of lavāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laˈbabo/ [laˈβ̞a.β̞o]
  • Rhymes: -abo
  • Syllabification: la‧va‧bo

Noun

lavabo m (plural lavabos)

  1. bathroom sink, washbasin

See also

Further reading

Turkish

Alternative forms

  • lavobo (misspelling)

Etymology

Borrowed from French lavabo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (standard) /laˈva.bo/, (some speakers) /ɫaˈva.bo/, (in fast speech) /ˈlaːbo/, /ˈɫaːbo/
  • Hyphenation: la‧va‧bo

Noun

lavabo (definite accusative lavaboyu, plural lavabolar)

  1. washbasin
  2. (euphemistic) toilet
    Synonym: tuvalet

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

Derived terms

  • lavabo açıcısı
  • lavabo bataryası
  • lavabo musluğu
  • lavabolu
  • lavabosuz

Further reading

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