aloe

From Old English alwe (“fragrant resin of an East Indian tree”), from Latin aloē, from Ancient Greek ἀλόη (alóē), from Hebrew אָהָל‎ (ʾāhāl), ultimately from Tamil அகில் (akil);[1] reinforced in Middle English by Old French aloes.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.loʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈləʊ.i/, /ˈæ.ləʊ/

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• Rhymes: -æləʊ

aloe (plural aloes)

1. (in the plural) The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma, produced after infection by the fungus Phialophora parasitica.
2. A plant of the genus Aloe.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     In mercy I put a bullet through his skull, and he fell sprawling among the aloes.

3. A strong, bitter drink made from the juice of such plants, used as a purgative.

• Often used in plural (originally under influence of Old French aloes).

• → Irish: aló
• → Samoan: aloe

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• aole

From Latin aloē.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.lo.e/
• Rhymes: -aloe
• Hyphenation: à‧lo‧e

aloe m or (sometimes) f (invariable)

1. aloe (plant)

• aloe in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Ancient Greek (τὰ) Ἁλῶα ((tà) Halôa), derived from ἅλως (hálōs, “threshing floor”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈlɔ.e/
• Rhymes: -ɔe
• Hyphenation: a‧lò‧e

aloe f pl (plural only)

1. (historical, Ancient Greece) a festival dedicated to Demeter, celebrated in the time of the harvesting of grapes

• alòe in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Aleo

From Ancient Greek ἀλόη (alóē, “aloes”). Ultimately from Tamil அகில் (akil);[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lo.eː/, [ˈäɫ̪oeː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lo.e/, [ˈäːloe]

aloē f (genitive aloēs); first declension

1. The aloe.
2. The bitter juice produced by the aloe used as a perfume, in medicine and in embalming.
3. (figuratively) Bitterness (in general).

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

• “aloe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aloe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aloe in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Old French aloe.

aloe f (plural aloes)

1. lark (bird)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (aloe)

From Latin alauda (“lark”).

aloe f (oblique plural aloes, nominative singular aloe, nominative plural aloes)

1. lark (bird)

• Middle French: aloe

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (aloe)

• áloe, aloé

Borrowed from Latin aloe.

aloe f (plural aloes)

1. aloe (plant of the genus Aloe)

Borrowed from French aloès and Latin aloē, from Ancient Greek ἀλόη (alóē).

aloe f (plural aloe)

1. aloe
2. a substance extracted from the aloe plant

From English aloe.

aloe

1. aloe

aloe m (plural aloes)

1. Alternative form of áloe

• “aloe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

English aloe

• IPA^(key): /á.ló.è/

álóè

1. aloe

   Synonym: ewé etí erin