robe

See also røbe, and robé

English

A judge in judicial robes

Etymology

Middle French robe "robe, garment" from Old French robe "booty, spoils of war", of Germanic origin, from Frankish *rauba, *rouba "booty, spoils, stolen clothes"; literally, "things taken" from Proto-Germanic *raubō, *raubaz, *rauban (“booty, that which is stripped or carried away”), from Proto-Indo-European *reup- (“to tear, peel”). Akin to Old High German roup "booty" (German Raub "robbery, spoils"), Old High German roubōn "to rob, steal" (German rauben), Old English rēafian (“to steal, deprive”). More at rob, reave.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹəʊb/

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Noun

robe (plural robes)

1. A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.

Translations

long, loose outer garment

Catalan: hàbit (ca) m., toga (ca) f. Danish: dameselskabskjole, skrud Dutch: kleed (nl) Esperanto: robo (eo) Estonian: kleit, kuub, talaar Finnish: kaapu (fi) French: robe (fr) f. German: Robe (de) f.

Hungarian: köpeny (hu), köntös (hu) (bathrobe) Ido: robo Italian: veste f., abito m., toga f. (of academic, judge) Latin: vestis (la) f., vestimentum (la) n. Malay: jubah (ms) Portuguese: manto (pt) m. Scottish Gaelic: ròb (gd) m. Serbian: odora f., odežda f.

Verb

robe (third-person singular simple present robes, present participle robing, simple past and past participle robed)

1. To clothe someone in a robe.

Anagrams

• Boer, bore, Ebro

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Anglo-Norman

Noun

robe f. (oblique plural robes, nominative singular robe, nominative plural robes)

1. loot; booty

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French

Etymology

Old French, from West Germanic *rauba ‘booty’, later ‘stolen clothing’.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ʁɔb/

Noun

robe f. (plural robes)

1. dress, frock
2. fur, coat (of an animal)

   Ce cheval a une robe isabelle.

3. wine's colour

Hypernyms

• habit
• vêtement

See also

• Les couleurs de la robe d'un cheval /The colors of horses' hair/ : alezan, aubère, bai, blanc, crème, gris, isabelle, noir, palomino, pie, rouan, souris.

Anagrams

• bore, orbe

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Italian

Noun

robe f.

1. Plural form of roba.

Anagrams

• orbe

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Old French

Noun

robe f. (oblique plural robes, nominative singular robe, nominative plural robes)

1. booty; spoils (chiefly of war)
2. piece of clothing
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     [D]onez li [d]e voz robes que vos avez
     La mellor que vos i savez.

     Give her the clothes that you have

     The best that you know if.

Related terms

• robeor
• rober

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881)

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Spanish

Verb

robe (infinitive robar)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of robar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of robar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of robar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of robar.