different between oboe vs hoboe

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

Noun

hoboe (plural hoboes)

1. Archaic spelling of hobo.