alose

Borrowed from French alose, from Latin alausa, from unattested Gaulish *alausa. Cognate with German Alse.[1]

alose (plural aloses)

1. Any of certain shad
   1. European shad (Alosa alosa); the allice or allis.
   2. American shad (Alosa sapidissima).

• “alose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Læsø, aloes, oleas

From Late Latin alosa, alausa, from Gaulish *alausa.

• IPA^(key): /a.loz/

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• Homophone: aloses

alose f (plural aloses)

1. shad (fishes of the herring family)

• “alose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• aloès

alose f

1. plural of alosa

• aleso, alesò, asole, esalo, esalò