different between aube vs aune

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??b/

Noun

aube (plural aubes)

1. Obsolete form of alb.
   • 1648, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge since the Conquest

     For washing eleven aubes and as many head-clothes , six

Anagrams

• Beau, beau

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ob/
• Homophone: aubes
• Hyphenation: aube
• Rhymes: -ob

Etymology 1

From Old French albe, from Vulgar Latin alba, from Latin albus (“white”).

Noun

aube f (plural aubes)

1. dawn, sunrise, daybreak
2. beginning

Synonyms

• aurore f

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin alba.

Noun

aube f (plural aubes)

1. (religion) alb

Etymology 3

Probably from Latin alapa (“blow, slap, smack”), of uncertain origin.

Noun

aube f (plural aubes)

1. (technology) paddle, blade
2. vane (of windmill)
3. small plank

Synonyms

• (paddle): palette f
• (plank): planchette f

Anagrams

• beau

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From French. See alnage.

Noun

aune (plural aunes)

1. An old French cloth measure, varying around the country, but at Paris equivalent to 0.95 of an English ell.

Anagrams

• Euan, Euna

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /on/

Etymology 1

From Middle French aune, from Old French alne, from Vulgar Latin *alina, from a Germanic language, probably Frankish *alina, from Proto-Germanic *alin?. Cognate with Old High German elina, Old English eln, Old Norse alin, ?ln, Gothic ???????????????????????? (aleina), and Latin ulna. More at ell.

Noun

aune f (plural aunes)

1. (historical, unit of length) ell
2. (by extension) measuring rod of one ell
3. (figuratively) yardstick (standard to which other comparisons are judged)

Derived terms

• à l'aune de

Verb

aune

1. first-person singular present indicative of auner
2. third-person singular present indicative of auner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of auner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of auner
5. second-person singular imperative of auner

Etymology 2

Noun

aune m (plural aunes)

1. Alternative spelling of aulne (“alder”)

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

From Latin alnus.

Noun

aune m (plural aunes)

1. (Jersey) alder