different between albe vs galbe

English

Etymology 1

From all +? be (it). More at albeit.

Conjunction

albe

1. (obsolete) Synonym of albeit

Etymology 2

Noun

albe (plural albes)

1. Obsolete spelling of alb

Anagrams

• -able, Abel, Able, Bale, Beal, Blea, Ebla, Elba, able, bael, bale, beal, blea

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch albe, from Latin alba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l.b?/
• Hyphenation: al?be
• Rhymes: -?lb?

Noun

albe f (plural alben)

1. (Roman Catholicism) alb

Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus. Compare Italian alba.

Noun

albe f (plural albis)

1. dawn

Italian

Noun

albe f

1. plural of alba

Anagrams

• bela

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?al.be/, [?ä??b?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?al.be/, [??lb?]

Adjective

albe

1. vocative masculine singular of albus

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus.

Noun

albe f (oblique plural albes, nominative singular albe, nominative plural albes)

1. dawn (sunrise; start of the day)

Descendants

• French: aube

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al.be/

Adjective

albe

1. nominative feminine plural of alb
2. accusative feminine plural of alb
3. nominative neuter plural of alb
4. accusative neuter plural of alb

English

Etymology

From French galbe. Doublet of garb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?alb/

Noun

galbe (plural galbes)

1. The contour or outline of something.
   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1123:

     Her teeth sank into his lips, he felt the sweet galbe of her flanks and arching back.

   • 1921, Aldous Huxley, Chrome Yellow, Penguin Books 1955, p. 7:

     What was the word to describe the curves of those little valleys? They were as fine as the lines of a human body, they were informed with the subtlety of art. Galbe. That was a good word; but it was French.

Anagrams

• Gable, Gebal, bagel, gabel, gable, gleba

French

Etymology

From earlier galbe, garbe, borrowed from Italian garbo, from Italian garbare, from Gothic *???????????????????????? (*garw?n). Alternatively from Middle High German walbe (“slope”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?alb/

Noun

galbe m (plural galbes)

1. curve; silhouette

Further reading

• “galbe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Adjective

galbe

1. vocative masculine singular of galbus