different between alee vs aloe

English

Etymology

a (“preposition”) +? lee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??li?/

Adverb

alee (comparative more alee, superlative most alee)

1. On the lee side of a ship, to the leeward side (vs aweather)

Anagrams

• eale

Alemannic German

Etymology

From French allez.

Pronunciation

• (Zurich) IPA^(key): /?le/

Interjection

alee

1. come on, let's go
   • 1903, Robert Walser, Der Teich:

     Was isch jetz für Zit? Scho drü? Alee, pressier, pressier.

     What time is it? Already three? Come on, hurry, hurry.

Italian

Noun

alee f

1. plural of alea

Middle French

Noun

alee f (plural alees)

1. passage; alley

Old French

Verb

alee f

1. feminine singular of the past participle of aler

Noun

alee f (oblique plural alees, nominative singular alee, nominative plural alees)

1. route
2. departure

Descendants

• French: allée
• ? Middle English: aley, alay, alei, allee, alie
  • English: alley
  • Scots: allay
  • ? Welsh: alai

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French allée.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?le.e/

Noun

alee f (plural alei)

1. allée

Declension

Spanish

Verb

alee

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of alear.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of alear.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of alear.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of alear.

English

Etymology

From Old English alwe (“fragrant resin of an East Indian tree”), from Latin alo?, from Ancient Greek ???? (aló?); reinforced in Middle English by Old French aloes.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æ.lo?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l??.i/, /?æ.l??/
• Rhymes: -æl??

Noun

aloe (plural aloes)

1. (in the plural) The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma, produced after infection by the fungus Phialophora parasitica.
2. A plant of the genus Aloe.
3. A strong, bitter drink made from the juice of such plants, used as a purgative.

Usage notes

• Often used in plural (originally under influence of Old French aloes).

Derived terms

• aloe vera

Descendants

• ? Irish: aló
• ? Samoan: aloe

Translations

See also

• agave
• maguey

Further reading

• aloe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Aloe on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Aloe on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• aole

Italian

Etymology

From Latin aloe

Noun

aloe m or f (invariable)

1. aloe (plant)

Anagrams

• Aleo

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (aló?, “aloes”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.lo.e?/, [?ä??oe?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.lo.e/, [???l??]

Noun

alo? f (genitive alo?s); first declension

1. The aloe.
2. The bitter juice produced by the aloe used as a perfume, in medicine and in embalming.
3. (figuratively) Bitterness (in general).

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Descendants

• ? Dutch: aloë
  • Afrikaans: aalwyn
  • ? Japanese: ??? (aroe)
• ? Estonian: aaloe
• ? Finnish: aaloe
• ? German: Aloe
• ? Hungarian: aloé
• ? Italian: aloe
• ? Japanese: ?? (rokai)
  • ? Okinawan: ?? (rugwai, dugwai)
• ? Old English: alwe
  • English: aloe
    • ? Irish: aló
    • ? Samoan: aloe
• Old French: aloes
  • French: aloès
    • ? Polish: aloes
    • ? Romanian: aloe
  • Norman: aloé
• ? Old Irish: aloe
• ? Portuguese: aloe
• ? Russian: ????? n (alóe)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: àloe
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ?????

Latin: aloja

• ? Swedish: aloe
• ? Ukrainian: ???? (aloe)
• ? Translingual: Aloe
• ? Translingual: Aloë

References

• aloe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aloe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aloe in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle French

Etymology

Old French aloe.

Noun

aloe f (plural aloes)

1. lark (bird)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (aloe)

Old French

Etymology

From Latin alauda (“lark”)

Noun

aloe f (oblique plural aloes, nominative singular aloe, nominative plural aloes)

1. lark (bird)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (aloe)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin aloe

Alternative forms

• áloe, aloé

Noun

aloe f (plural aloes)

1. aloe (plant of the genus Aloe)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French aloès and Latin alo?.

Noun

aloe f (plural aloe)

1. aloe
2. a substance extracted from the aloe plant

Declension

Samoan

Etymology

From English aloe.

Noun

aloe

1. aloe

Spanish

Noun

aloe m (plural aloes)

1. Alternative form of áloe

Further reading

• “aloe” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.