FromFrench (à la)diable, fromdiable(“devil”), fromOld French.Doublet ofdevil,diablo, anddiabolus.
diable (pluraldiables)
- Anunglazed earthenware casserole dish.
diable (notcomparable)
- (postpositive)Flavored withhotspices.
- Synonym:diablo
- saucediable
Likely borrowed fromEcclesiastical Latin orLate Latindiabolus, fromAncient Greekδιάβολος(diábolos).
diable m (pluraldiables)
- devil
diablo +-e
diable
- devilishly(in a way characteristic of the devil)
- terribly,awfully
diable
- deuce,damn
Inherited fromMiddle Frenchdiable, fromOld Frenchdiable,deable, a semi-learned borrowing fromEcclesiastical Latin orLate Latindiabolus, fromAncient Greekδιάβολος(diábolos).
diable m (pluraldiables)
- (religion, mythology)devil
- (colloquial)rogue, (old)devil
- hand truck
1954, Institut français d'Afrique noire,Mémoires de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire,page179:... l’ensemble a l’aspect d’une brouette ou d’undiable, mais ne peut être que tiré, car, en poussant, la roue sortirait ...- ... the whole has the appearance of a wheelbarrow or ahand 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,page172: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 sèchep.35
Déplacer une pierre avec une brouette ou undiable- Moving a stone with a wheelbarrow or ahand truck
Diable à roues pneumatiques- hand truck with pneumatic wheels.
le diable m
- theDevil
diable
- (dated)dash it!,deuce!
diable
- (colloquial)the hell,on earth,intensifies interrogatives
- pourquoidiable ―whyon earth
- commentdiable ―howthe hell
FromOld Frenchdiable,deable.
le diable m
- theDevil
diable m (pluraldiables)
- devil
diable m orf (pluraldiables)
- evil
- diable onDictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
diable m (nominative singulardiables)
- Alternative form ofdeable
diable
- inflection ofdiabli:
- neuternominativesingular
- neuteraccusativesingular
- neutervocativesingular
- nonvirilenominativeplural
- nonvirileaccusativeplural
- nonvirilevocativeplural
diable m
- inflection ofdiabeł:
- locativesingular
- vocativesingular
