different between serenade vs aubade

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French sérénade, from Italian serenata, from the past participle of serenare, from Latin serenare, from serenus (“calm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s????ne?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

serenade (plural serenades)

1. A love song that is sung directly to one's love interest, especially one performed below the window of a loved one in the evening.
2. (music) An instrumental composition in several movements.

Translations

Verb

serenade (third-person singular simple present serenades, present participle serenading, simple past and past participle serenaded)

1. (transitive) To sing or play a serenade for (someone).
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)[1]

     The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.

Translations

Further reading

• serenade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• enseared

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

serenade f (plural serenades)

1. serenade

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sere?nade]

Noun

serenade f pl

1. plural of serenad?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French aubade, from Old French albade, from Latin albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o??b??d/

Noun

aubade (plural aubades)

1. A song or poem greeting or evoking the dawn.
2. A morning love song; a song of lovers parting in the morning.

Coordinate terms

• serenade
• nocturne

Translations

Further reading

• aubade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “aubade”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French aubade, from Middle French aubade, from Old Occitan aubada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o??ba?.d?/
• Hyphenation: au?ba?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

aubade f (plural aubades)

1. A song or musical performance to honour someone, performed in the morning.
2. (uncommon, chiefly historical) An aubade, a morning love song.

Related terms

• albino
• album
• albumen

French

Etymology

From Old French albade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.bad/

Noun

aubade f (plural aubades)

1. aubade (song; poem)
2. aubade (love song)

Descendants

• ? Dutch: aubade
• ? English: aubade

Further reading

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