diable

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• diablo

From French (à la) diable, from diable (“devil”), from Old French. Doublet of devil, diablo, and diabolus.

• IPA^(key): /diˈɑːbəl/

diable (plural diables)

1. An unglazed earthenware casserole dish.

diable (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) Flavored with hot spices.

   Synonym: diablo

   sauce diable

• Abdiel, Idabel, bailed, baldie, belaid, dabeli, déblai

Likely borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -ablə, -able

diable m (plural diables)

1. devil

• diabòlic

• dimoni
• Satanàs

• “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.

diablo +‎ -e

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• Rhymes: -able
• Hyphenation: di‧a‧ble

diable

1. devilishly (in a way characteristic of the devil)
2. terribly, awfully

diable

1. deuce, damn

• yiable (Canada)

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).

• IPA^(key): /djabl/ ~ /djɑbl/

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• (Louisiana, also) IPA^(key): /dʒɔb/, /dʒawb/, /dʒa.bul/

diable m (plural diables)

1. (religion, mythology) devil
2. (colloquial) rogue, (old) devil
3. 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.

• Haitian Creole: dyab
• → English: diable, diablo
• Chinook Jargon: le diaub

le diable m

1. the Devil

diable

1. (dated) dash it!, deuce!

diable

1. (colloquial) the hell, on earth, intensifies interrogatives

   pourquoi diable ― why on earth

   comment diable ― how the hell

• “diable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• Diable (proper noun)
• dyable

From Old French diable, deable.

le diable m

1. the Devil

diable m (plural diables)

1. devil

diable m or f (plural diables)

1. evil

• French: diable, yiable (Canada)
  • Haitian Creole: dyab
  • → English: diable, diablo
  • Chinook Jargon: le diaub
• Norman: dgiâbl'ye (Jersey), diablle (France)

• diable on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

diable m (nominative singular diables)

1. Alternative form of deable

• IPA^(key): /ˈdja.blɛ/
• Rhymes: -ablɛ
• Syllabification: dia‧ble
• Homophone: diablę

diable

1. inflection of diabli:
   1. neuter nominative singular
   2. neuter accusative singular
   3. neuter vocative singular
   4. nonvirile nominative plural
   5. nonvirile accusative plural
   6. nonvirile vocative plural

diable m

1. inflection of diabeł:
   1. locative singular
   2. vocative singular