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adobe
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??d??.bi/, /??d??b/
- (US) IPA(key): /??do?.bi/
- Rhymes: -??bi
Noun
adobe (usually uncountable, plural adobes)
- An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
- Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
- 1903, O’Henry, Roads of Destiny
- “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”
- 1904, O’Henry, Cabbages and Kings
- Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.
- 1977, George Lucas, Star Wars (script)
- The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.
- 26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker,
- The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.
- The earth from which such bricks are made.
- A house made of adobe brick.
Synonyms
- mudbrick (definition 1)
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “adobe”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- EABOD, abode, boaed
Dutch
Etymology
From Spanish adobe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??do?.b?/
- Hyphenation: ado?be
Noun
adobe m (plural adobes, diminutive adobetje n)
- adobe
French
Etymology
From Spanish adobe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.d?b/
Noun
adobe m (plural adobes)
- adobe
Further reading
- “adobe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?ð??e?/
Noun
adobe m (plural adobes)
- adobe (brick)
- 1437, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 132:
- pareçeu y presente Gonçalvo Fiel, moordomo da dita villa, e presentou ao dito juis, alcaldes, jurado e procuradores, a Gonçalvo de Carcaçia preso dos pees con huus adobes e h?a cadea grosa de ferro fechada con h?u cadeado
- there appeared Gonzalvo Fiel, butler of the aforementioned town, to present to the mentioned judge, councilors, juror, and council agent one Gonzalvo of Carcarcía, his feet fettered with some bricks and a thick iron chain which was locked with a padlock
- pareçeu y presente Gonçalvo Fiel, moordomo da dita villa, e presentou ao dito juis, alcaldes, jurado e procuradores, a Gonçalvo de Carcaçia preso dos pees con huus adobes e h?a cadea grosa de ferro fechada con h?u cadeado
- 1437, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 132:
- clod, divot, clump of earth
- Synonyms: baloco, terrón
References
- “adobe” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “adobe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “adobe” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “adobe” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Japanese
Romanization
adobe
- R?maji transcription of ???
Portuguese
Noun
adobe m (plural adobes)
- adobe (unburnt brick)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?dobe/, [a?ð?o.??e]
Etymology 1
Noun
adobe m (plural adobes)
- (construction) adobe
Descendants
- ? Dutch: adobe
- ? English: adobe
- ? French: adobe
- ? Tagalog: adobe
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
adobe
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of adobar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of adobar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of adobar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of adobar.
Further reading
- “adobe” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- adube
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish adobe.
Noun
adobe
- (construction) adobe
References
- The Tagalog Pinoy Dictionary
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tent
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: t?nt, IPA(key): /t?nt/
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /t?nt/
- Homophone: tint
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /t?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
- Homophone: tint (with pin-pen merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”). Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from Old English teld (“tent”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).
Noun
tent (plural tents)
- A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
- (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
- (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- A splendid tent was erected on the brae north of the town, and round that the countless congregation assembled.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)
- (intransitive) To go camping.
- We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.
- (cooking) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
- (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
- The sheet tented over his midsection.
Translations
See also
- camp
- lean-to
- lodge
- pavilion, pavillion
- pitch
- tarp
Etymology 2
From Middle English tent (“attention”), aphetic variation of attent (“attention”), from Old French atente (“attention, intention”), from Latin attenta, feminine of attentus, past participle of attendere (“to attend”).
Verb
tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)
- (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed
- (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) to guard; to hinder.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Noun
tent (plural tents)
- (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Lydgate to this entry?)
- (archaic) Intention; design.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Etymology 3
From Middle English tente (“a probe”), from Middle French tente, deverbal of tenter, from Latin tent?re (“to probe, test”), alteration of tempt?re (“to test, probe, tempt”).
Noun
tent (plural tents)
- (medicine) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
- (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
Verb
tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)
- (medicine, sometimes figuratively) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
- to tent a wound
Etymology 4
From Spanish tinto (“deep-colored”), from Latin tinctus, past participle of tingo (“to dye”). More at tinge, tint, tinto. Compare claret (“French red wine”), also from color.
Noun
tent (plural tents)
- (archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.
See also
- claret, hock, sack
Anagrams
- Nett, nett
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch tente, from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta or *tenda.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?nt/
- Hyphenation: tent
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
tent m (plural tenten, diminutive tentje n)
- tent (for camping, special occasions, etc.)
- pavillion
- Synonym: paviljoen
- (informal, Dutch, often in compounds) a building, especially one used for commercial purposes
- Synonym: keet
Derived terms
- circustent
- hottentottententententoonstelling
- kermistent
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
tent
- past participle of tenne
Southern Kam
Adjective
tent
- short
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