aube
See also: Aube
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aube (plural aubes)
- Obsolete form of alb.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC:
- For washing eleven aubes and as many head-clothes
References edit
- “aube”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old French albe, from Vulgar Latin *alba, from Latin albus (“white”).
Noun edit
aube f (plural aubes)
- dawn, sunrise, daybreak
- Synonyms: aurore, point du jour, lever du jour, lever du soleil
- Coordinate terms: crépuscule, coucher de soleil
- beginning
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin alba.
Noun edit
aube f (plural aubes)
Etymology 3 edit
Probably from Latin alapa (“blow, slap, smack”), of uncertain origin.
Noun edit
aube f (plural aubes)
- (technology) paddle, blade
- Synonym: palette f
- vane (of windmill)
- small plank
- Synonym: planchette f
Further reading edit
- “aube”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Noun edit
aube
- Alternative form of awbe