different between maguey vs aloe

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish maguey, from Taíno *mawei.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m???e?/

Noun

maguey (plural magueys)

1. Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 424:

     through black fields, where tlachiqueros brought sheepskins slung across their backs full of fresh maguey juice to be fermented, and campesinos in white lined the right-of-way

   • 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, Vintage 1992, p. 147:

     and they rode through strange forests of maguey--the aloe or century plant--with immense flowering stalks that rose forty feet into the desert air.

   Synonyms: agave, pita, century plant

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:maguey.

Translations

References

• maguey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Agave americana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Agave americana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Agave americana at USDA Plants database

Spanish

Alternative forms

• magüey

Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno *mawei.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?ei/, [?ma.??ei?]

Noun

maguey m (plural magueyes)

1. (Latin America) maguey

   Synonym: pita

Further reading

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

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.