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From French (à la) diable, from diable (“devil”), from Old French. Doublet of devil, diablo, and diabolus.
diable (plural diables)
- An unglazed earthenware casserole dish.
diable (not comparable)
- (postpositive) Flavored with hot spices.
Synonym: diablo
sauce diable
Likely borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).
diable m (plural diables)
“diable”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
“diable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
“diable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “diable”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
diable
- devilishly (in a way characteristic of the devil)
- terribly, awfully
diable
Inherited 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).
diable m (plural diables)
- (religion, mythology) devil
- (colloquial) rogue, (old) devil
- hand truck
- 1954, Institut français d'Afrique noire, Mémoires de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire, page 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, page 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.
- 1954, Institut français d'Afrique noire, Mémoires de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire, page 179:
le diable m
- the Devil
diable
diable
- (colloquial) the hell, on earth, intensifies interrogatives
pourquoi diable ― why on earth
comment diable ― how the hell
- “diable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
- Diable (proper noun)
- dyable
From Old French diable, deable.
le diable m
- the Devil
diable m (plural diables)
diable m or f (plural diables)
- French: diable, yiable (Canada)
- Norman: dgiâbl'ye (Jersey), diablle (France)
- diable on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
diable m (nominative singular diables)
- alternative form of deable
diable
- inflection of diabli:
diable m