diable

See also: diablę

English

Alternative forms

• diablo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈɑːbəl/

Noun

diable (plural diables)

1. An unglazed earthenware casserole dish.

Adjective

diable (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) Flavored with hot spices.

   Synonym: diablo

   sauce diable

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [diˈab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [diˈa.ble]
• Rhymes: -ablə, -able

Noun

diable m (plural diables)

1. devil

Derived terms

• advocat del diable
• diable espinós
• diables
• endiablar
• ou del diable

 

Related terms

• diabòlic

See also

• dimoni
• Satanàs

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

diablo +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [diˈable]

• Audio:

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

Adverb

diable

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

Interjection

diable

1. deuce, damn

French

Alternative forms

• yiable (Canada)

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:

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• Audio (Canada):

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

Noun

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.

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

 

Descendants

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

Proper noun

le diable m

1. the Devil

Interjection

diable

1. (dated) dash it!, deuce!

Adverb

diable

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

   pourquoi diable ― why on earth

   comment diable ― how the hell

Further reading

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

Middle French

Alternative forms

• Diable (proper noun)
• dyable

Etymology

From Old French diable, deable.

Proper noun

le diable m

1. the Devil

Noun

diable m (plural diables)

1. devil

Adjective

diable m or f (plural diables)

1. evil

Descendants

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

References

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

Old French

Proper noun

diable m (nominative singular diables)

1. Alternative form of deable

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

Noun

diable m

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