different between oboe vs hautbois

English

Etymology

An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut (“high, loud, high-pitched”) and bois (“wood, woodwind”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?bo?/
• Rhymes: -??b??

Noun

oboe (plural oboes)

1. A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• cor anglais
• hautboy

Anagrams

• Booe, OEOB, OOBE

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?oboe/, [?o?bo?e?]
• Rhymes: -oboe
• Syllabification: o?bo?e

Noun

oboe

1. (music) oboe

Declension

Italian

Alternative forms

• oboè (obsolete)

Etymology

From French hautbois, transcribed phonetically.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.bo.e/
• Hyphenation: ò?boe

Noun

oboe m (plural oboi)

1. (music) oboe
2. (metonymically) oboist

References

• oboe in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Spanish

Etymology

From French hautbois.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?boe/, [o???o.e]
• Rhymes: -oe
• Hyphenation: o?bo?e

Noun

oboe m (plural oboes)

1. (music) oboe

References

Swedish

Noun

oboe c

1. (music) an oboe

Declension

Related terms

• oboist

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French hautbois. Doublet of oboe and hautboy.

Noun

hautbois (plural hautbois)

1. Any of a family of organ stops that contain reeds.

   Synonym: oboe

2. Any of the (now obsolete) predecessors of the oboe or cor anglais.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 3,^[1]

     Then [her voice] became a little louder, and sounded like a flute or a distant hautbois.

Derived terms

• hautboist

French

Etymology

haut (“high (pitched)”) +? bois (“wood(wind)”)

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /o.bwa/

Noun

hautbois m (plural hautbois)

1. oboe
2. oboist

Derived terms

• hautbois d'amour
• hautboïste

Descendants

• ? English: hautboy
• ? Italian: oboè
• ? Russian: ?????? (gobój)
  • ? Armenian: ????? (hoboy)
  • ? Azerbaijani: qoboy
  • ? Kazakh: ????? (goboy)
• ? Spanish: oboe
• ? Turkish: obua

Further reading

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