aube
See also: Aube
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
aube (plural aubes)
- Obsolete form of alb.
- 1648, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge since the Conquest
- For washing eleven aubes and as many head-clothes , six
- 1648, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge since the Conquest
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for aube in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old French albe, from Vulgar Latin *alba, from Latin albus (“white”).
NounEdit
aube f (plural aubes)
SynonymsEdit
- aurore f
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin alba.
NounEdit
aube f (plural aubes)
Etymology 3Edit
Probably from Latin alapa (“blow, slap, smack”), of uncertain origin.
NounEdit
aube f (plural aubes)
- (technology) paddle, blade
- Synonym: palette f
- vane (of windmill)
- small plank
- Synonym: planchette f
AnagramsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “aube”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
aube
- Alternative form of awbe