different between galbe vs gable

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?.b?l/
• Rhymes: -e?b?l

Etymology 1

The southern English term gable probably came from Old French gable (compare modern French gâble), from Old Norse gafl. The northern form gavel is perhaps also akin to Old Norse gafl, masculine, of the same meaning (confer Swedish gavel, Danish gavl). See gafl for more etymology information.

Noun

gable (plural gables)

1. (architecture) The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• pediment
• peaked roof
• pitched roof

Etymology 2

Noun

gable (plural gables)

1. A cable.

Anagrams

• Gebal, bagel, gabel, galbe, gleba

German

Verb

gable

1. inflection of gabeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative