different between plebe vs glebe

English

Etymology

From Latin pl?bs (“the plebeian class”), probably via Middle French plebe (“plebeians, commoners, the rabble”) and possibly later understood as a clipping of plebeian. Cognate with Italian plebe, Spanish plebe, Portuguese plebe.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /plib/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pli?b/
• Rhymes: -i?b

Noun

plebe (plural plebes)

1. (historical, usually in the plural) A plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens.
   • 1583, Thomas Smith, De Republica Anglorum, Vol. I, Ch. xvi:

     The patricij many yeares excluding the plebes from bearing rule, vntill at last all magistrates were made common betweene them.

2. (historical, obsolete) The plebs, the plebeian class.
   • 1612, Thomas Heywood, An Apology for Actors, Ch. ii:

     All other roomes were free for the plebe or multitude.

3. (obsolete) The similar lower class of any area.
4. (US, military, slang) A freshman cadet at a military academy.
   • 1834 October, Military & Naval Magazine, p. 85:

     My drill master, a young stripling, told me I was not so ‘gross’ as most other pleibs, the name of all new cadets.

   • 1910, H. Irving Hancock, Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point (page 84)

     "But is a plebe forbidden to stroll here?"
     "If a plebe did have the brass to try it," replied Anstey slowly, "I reckon he would have to fight the whole yearling class in turn."

Related terms

• pleb, plebs, plebeian

Derived terms

• pleb, plebe class, plebe year, plebeskin

Translations

References

• “plebe, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2006

Anagrams

• bleep

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?bem, accusative form of pl?bs. Compare the doublet pieve.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?.be/
• Hyphenation: plè?be

Noun

plebe f (plural plebi)

1. Common people
2. rabble, riffraff

Related terms

• plebaglia
• plebeo
• plebiscito

Latin

Noun

pl?be

1. ablative singular of pl?bs

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?bs, pl?bis.

Noun

plebe f (plural plebes)

1. plebs (the common people)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French plèbe, Latin plebs, plebem.

Noun

plebe f (uncountable)

1. plebs, the common people, commonality, commoners, the lower orders

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?bs, pl?bis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plebe/, [?ple.??e]

Noun

plebe f (plural plebes)

1. plebeians, common people

   Synonym: chusma

2. (historical) plebs

Related terms

• plebeyo

Noun

plebe m or f (plural plebes)

1. (colloquial, Sinaloa and Sonora, Mexico) kid, child
2. (New Mexico) kids, children, mass noun, compare with gente usage

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Old French glebe, from Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”). Doublet of gleba.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gl?b, IPA^(key): /?li?b/

Noun

glebe (plural glebes)

1. Turf; soil; ground; sod.
   • 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,

     Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke

2. (historical) In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
3. (archaic) A meadow, land or fields
4. (mining) A piece of earth containing ore.

Usage notes

• A number of places are named Glebe.

Derived terms

• glebe-house
• glebe-farm
• glebe-land

Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?be

Noun

glebe f

1. plural of gleba