diable

From French (à la) diable, from diable (“devil”), from Old French.

diable (plural diables)

1. An unglazed earthenware casserole dish.

diable (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) Flavored with hot spices.

   sauce diable

• Abdiel, Idabel, bailed, baldie, belaid, bidale, dabeli, déblai

From Old Occitan [Term?], borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).

• Rhymes: -aβle

diable m (plural diables)

1. devil

• diables

diablo +‎ -e

diable

1. devilishly (in a way characteristic of the devil)
2. terribly, awfully

diable

1. deuce, damn

• yiable (Canada)

From Middle French diable, from Old French diable, deable, a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).

• IPA^(key): /djabl/, /djɑbl/

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• (Louisiana, also) IPA^(key): [dʒɔb], [dʒawb], [dʒabul]

diable m (plural diables)

1. (religion, mythology) devil
2. (colloquial) rogue, (old) devil
3. hand truck
   • 1954 Institut français d'Afrique noire, Mémoires de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire, p.179

     ... l'ensemble a l'aspect d'une brouette ou d'un diable, mais ne peut être que tiré, car, en poussant, la roue sortirait ...

     ... the whole has the appearance of a wheelbarrow or a hand truck, but can only be pulled, because, when pushed, the wheel would come out ...

   • 1996 Charles-Édouard de Suremain, Jours ordinaires à la finca: une grande plantation de café au Guatemala p.172

     En milieu d'après-midi, juste avant la pluie, un ouvrier ramasse le café de consommation à l'aide d'un « diable », une sorte de repoussoir en bois qui a la forme d'une caisse ouverte, qu'il pousse devant lui.

     By mid-afternoon, just before the rain, a worker picks the coffee for consumption with the aid of a "devil", a kind of trolley of wood in the form of an open box, which is pushed before you.

   • 2011 Louis Cagin and Laetitia Nicolas, Construire en pierre sèche p.35

     Déplacer une pierre avec une brouette ou un diable

     Moving a stone with a wheelbarrow or a hand truck

     Diable à roues pneumatiques

     hand truck with pneumatic wheels.

• au diable
• diable vauvert

• Haitian Creole: dyab
• → English: diable, diablo

le diable m

1. the Devil

diable

1. (dated) dash it!, deuce!

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

• Diable (proper noun)
• dyable

From Old French diable, deable.

le diable m

1. the Devil

diable m (plural diables)

1. devil

diable m or f (plural diables)

1. evil

• French: diable, yiable
  • Haitian Creole: dyab
  • → English: diable, diablo

• diable on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)

diable c (plural diables)

1. devil

• deable

Semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).

diable m (nominative singular diables)

1. the Devil

• Middle French: diable, dyable
  • French: diable, yiable
    • Haitian Creole: dyab
    • → English: diable, diablo
• Norman: dgiâbl'ye
• Walloon: diale

• IPA^(key): /ˈdjab.lɛ/

diable

1. inflection of diabli:
   1. neuter nominative singular
   2. neuter accusative singular
   3. neuter vocative singular
   4. nonvirile nominative plural
   5. nonvirile accusative plural
   6. nonvirile vocative plural

diable m

1. inflection of diabeł:
   1. locative singular
   2. vocative singular