aube

See also: Aube

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɔːb/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːb

Noun

aube (plural aubes)

  1. 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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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)

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ob/
  • Audio (France, Paris)(file)
  • Homophone: aubes
  • Hyphenation: aube
  • Rhymes: -ob

Etymology 1

From Old French albe, from Vulgar Latin *alba, from Latin albus (“white”).

Noun

aube f (plural aubes)

  1. dawn, sunrise, daybreak
    Synonyms: aurore, point du jour, lever du jour, lever du soleil
    Coordinate terms: crépuscule, coucher de soleil
  2. beginning

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin alba.

Noun

aube f (plural aubes)

  1. (religion) alb

Etymology 3

Probably from Latin alapa (“blow, slap, smack”), of uncertain origin.

Noun

aube f (plural aubes)

  1. (technology) paddle, blade
    Synonym: palette f
  2. vane (of windmill)
  3. small plank
    Synonym: planchette f

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Middle English

Noun

aube

  1. Alternative form of awbe
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