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 inLatin begins with the wordlavābō(“Iwillwash”).^[1][2] The sense of "room with atoilet" developed under the influence oflavatory andlav.

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ləˈveɪbəʊ/

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lavabo (plurallavabosorlavaboes)

1. (Christianity) Aritualinvolving thewashing ofone'shands at achurch'soffertory beforehandling theEucharist.

   Synonym:lavatory

2. (Christianity) Thesmalltowelused todry thepriest'shandsfollowing theritual.
   • 1870, Daniel Rock,Textile Fabrics, page203:

     These small liturgical towels got[…] the name ofLavabo cloths orLavaboes.

3. Awashbasin,particularly(Christianity) theone in achurchused in theritual.

   Synonym:washbasin

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

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

4. (architecture) Atroughused forwashing atsomemedievalmonasteries.
5. (humorous,euphemistic) Alavatory: aroomused forurination anddefecation.

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus:bathroom

   • 1930,Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter XIV, inStrong Poision, page177:

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

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

lavabo m (plurallavabos)

1. lavabo,washbasin,sink
2. toilet

   Synonym:vàter

3. (metonymic)bathroom

Borrowed fromFrenchlavabo, fromLatinlavābō(“I will wash”), first-person singular future active indicative oflavō, lavāre(“wash, bathe”,verb).

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• Hyphenation:la‧va‧bo

lavabo m (plurallavabo's,diminutivelavabootje n)

1. (Belgium)sink,washbasin

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

Borrowed fromLatinlavābō(“I will wash”), first-person singular future active indicative oflavō, lavāre(“wash, bathe”,verb).

• IPA^(key):/la.va.bo/

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lavabo m (plurallavabos)

1. washbasin

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

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

FromLatinlavābō(“I will wash”).

• (Standard Indonesian)IPA^(key):/laˈvabo/[laˈfa.bo]
• Rhymes:-abo
• Syllabification:la‧va‧bo

lavabo (plurallavabo-lavabo)

1. (Catholicism)lavabo:
   1. a ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist
   2. the small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual
   3. a washbasin, the one in a church used in the ritual

• “lavabo” inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

lavabo m (plurallavabiorinvariable)

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

• lavandino

lavābō

1. first-personsingularfutureactiveindicative oflavō

FromLatinlavābō(“I will wash”), first-person singular future active indicative oflavō, lavāre(“wash, bathe”).

lavabo m (plurallavabos)

1. (Jersey)washbasin

Borrowed fromLatinlavābō(“I shall clean”).

• Rhymes:-abu
• Hyphenation:la‧va‧bo

lavabo m (plurallavabos)

1. lavabo(washbasin, especially one used for ceremonious washing)

   Synonym:lavatório

2. (chiefly in theplural)lavatory(room containing a toilet)

   Synonyms:casa de banho,banheiro,lavatório,WC

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

lavàbō m (Cyrillic spellingлава̀бо̄)

1. sink,washbasin
2. lavabo

• umivaonik

Borrowed fromLatinlavābō, first person singular future indicative oflavāre.

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

lavabo m (plurallavabos)

1. bathroomsink,washbasin

• → Cebuano:lababo
• → Sambali:lababo
• → Tagalog:lababo
• → Tausug:lababu

• lavamanos m

• “lavabo”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• lavobo(misspelling)

Borrowed fromFrenchlavabo.

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

lavabo (definite accusativelavaboyu,plurallavabolar)

1. washbasin
2. (euphemistic)toilet

   Synonym:tuvalet

• “lavabo”, inTurkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lavabo”, inNişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “lavabo”, inMisalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lavabo”, inÖtüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat,page2881