diable
See also: diablę
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French (à la) diable, from diable (“devil”), from Old French. Doublet of devil, diablo, and diabolus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diˈɑːbəl/
Catalan
Etymology
Likely borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).
Pronunciation
Derived terms
- advocat del diable
- diables
- endiablar
- ou del diable
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [diˈable]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -able
- Hyphenation: di‧a‧ble
French
Etymology
Inherited 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/, /djɑbl/
Audio (file) Audio (CAN) (file) - (Louisiana, also) IPA(key): /dʒɔb/, /dʒawb/, /dʒa.bul/
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, page 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 ...
- 1996, Charles-Édouard de Suremain, Jours ordinaires à la finca: une grande plantation de café au Guatemala, page 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.
- 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.
Derived terms
- à la diable
- au diable
- au diable-vauvert
- avocat du diable
- avoir le diable au corps
- cheval du diable
- de tous les diables
- diable de Tasmanie
- diable vauvert
- diablement
- diablerie
- du diable
- en diable
- endiablé
- endiabler
- herbe au diable
- herbe du diable
- le diable aux trousses
- mors du diable
- ne craindre ni Dieu ni diable
- pacte avec le diable
- que diable
- tenter le diable
- tirer le diable par la queue
- vendre son âme au diable
Further reading
- “diable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French diable, deable.
Descendants
References
- diable on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdjab.lɛ/
- Rhymes: -ablɛ
- Syllabification: diab‧le
- Homophone: diablę
Adjective
diable
- inflection of diabli:
- neuter nominative singular
- neuter accusative singular
- neuter vocative singular
- nonvirile nominative plural
- nonvirile accusative plural
- nonvirile vocative plural
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