diable
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French (à la) diable, from diable (“devil”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French.
Noun
diable (plural diables)
- An unglazed earthenware casserole dish.
Adjective
diable (not comparable)
- (postpositive) Flavored with hot spices.
- sauce diable
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
diable m (plural diables)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “diable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “diable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “diable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “diable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Esperanto
Etymology
Adverb
diable
- devilishly (in a way characteristic of the devil)
- terribly, awfully
Interjection
diable
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle French diable, from Old French diable, deable, a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /djabl/, /djabl/ ~ /djɑbl/
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Noun
diable m (plural diables)
- (religion, mythology) devil
- (colloquial) rogue, (old) devil
- hand truck
- 1954 Institut français d'Afrique noire, Mémoires de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire, p.179
- ... l'ensemble a l'aspect d'une brouette ou d'un diable, mais ne peut être que tiré, car, en poussant, la roue sortirait ...
- ... the whole has the appearance of a wheelbarrow or a hand truck, but can only be pulled, because, when pushed, the wheel would come out ...
- ... l'ensemble a l'aspect d'une brouette ou d'un diable, mais ne peut être que tiré, car, en poussant, la roue sortirait ...
- 1996 Charles-Édouard de Suremain, Jours ordinaires à la finca: une grande plantation de café au Guatemala p.172
- En milieu d'après-midi, juste avant la pluie, un ouvrier ramasse le café de consommation à l'aide d'un « diable », une sorte de repoussoir en bois qui a la forme d'une caisse ouverte, qu'il pousse devant lui.
- By mid-afternoon, just before the rain, a worker picks the coffee for consumption with the aid of a "devil", a kind of trolley of wood in the form of an open box, which is pushed before you.
- En milieu d'après-midi, juste avant la pluie, un ouvrier ramasse le café de consommation à l'aide d'un « diable », une sorte de repoussoir en bois qui a la forme d'une caisse ouverte, qu'il pousse devant lui.
- 2011 Louis Cagin and Laetitia Nicolas, Construire en pierre sèche p.35
- Déplacer une pierre avec une brouette ou un diable
- Moving a stone with a wheelbarrow or a hand truck
- Diable à roues pneumatiques
- hand truck with pneumatic wheels.
- Déplacer une pierre avec une brouette ou un diable
- 1954 Institut français d'Afrique noire, Mémoires de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire, p.179
Derived terms
Descendants
Proper noun
le diable m
- the Devil
Interjection
diable
Further reading
- “diable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French diable, deable.
Proper noun
le diable m
- the Devil
Noun
diable m (plural diables)
Adjective
diable m or f (plural diables)
Descendants
References
- diable on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Novial
Noun
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Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).
Proper noun
diable m (nominative singular diables)
- the Devil
Descendants
Polish
Pronunciation
Adjective
diable
- inflection of diabli:
Noun
diable m
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