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English

Etymology

French; doublet of obolus and pul.

Noun

obole (plural oboles)

1. (historical) An obsolete French coin.

Anagrams

• Boole

French

Etymology

Latin obolus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (obolós).

Noun

obole f (plural oboles)

1. (monetary) offering
2. obole (obsolete French money)
3. obol (obsolete Greek money)

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

obol?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of obole?

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

obole (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. feminine plural active past participle of obosti

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