different between filbert vs avellane

English

Alternative forms

• filberd

Etymology

Earlier filbert-nut, Philibert-nut, from Anglo-Norman noix de filbert, so named because they are ripe near Saint Philibert’s Day.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?lb?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f?lb?t/

Noun

filbert (plural filberts)

1. The hazelnut.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2

     I'll bring thee / To clust'ring filberts, and sometimes I'll get thee / Young scamels from the rock.
2. The hazel tree.
3. A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head.

Synonyms

• (nut): hazelnut
• (tree): hazelnut

Hyponyms

• cobnut (usually the common hazel (Corylus avellana) which grows in the UK and Europe)

Translations

Anagrams

• beflirt

English

Alternative forms

• avellan

Etymology

From Italian avellana (“filbert”), from Latin Avella or Abella, a city of Campania.

Adjective

avellane (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) In the form of four unhusked filberts

   an avellane cross

References

• avellane in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “avellane”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.

Italian

Noun

avellane f

1. plural of avellana

Spanish

Verb

avellane

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