haut
English
Etymology
From Middle English haut, hawt, haute, from Old French haut, halt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɔːt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːt
Adjective
haut (comparative more haut, superlative most haut)
- (obsolete) Haughty.
- 1648, John Milton, Psalm LXXX:
- nations proud and haut
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- (obsolete) Having high standards or quality.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
- My ſcole is more ſolem and ſomwhat more haute
Than to be founde in any ſuch faute.
- My ſcole is more ſolem and ſomwhat more haute
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for haut in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Basque
Verb
haut
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Middle High German hūt, from Old High German hūt, from Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz (“hide, skin”). Cognate with German Haut, English hide.
Declension
Derived terms
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Further reading
- “haut” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
French
Etymology
From Middle French hault, from Old French haut, halt (“high, tall, elevated”), a conflation of Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”) and Latin altus (“high, raised, profound”). Akin to Old High German hōh (“high, tall, elevated”). More at high, haughty.
Pronunciation
Derived terms
- à haute voix
- à voix haute
- au plus haut point
- de haute lutte
- de haute volée
- en haut
- en haut de
- garder la tête haute
- haut allemand
- haut clergé
- haut comme trois pommes
- haut de gamme
- haut débit
- haut du panier
- haut en couleur
- haut et fort
- haut fait
- haut fourneau
- haut la main
- haut les cœurs
- haut les mains
- haut lieu
- haut placé
- haut-le-cœur
- haute couture
- haute école
- haute mer
- haute société
- haute trahison
- hautes sphères
- marée haute
- ne pas voler haut
- pendre haut et court
- péter plus haut que son cul
- prendre de haut
- tenir en haute estime
- tenir la dragée haute
- tenir le haut du pavé
- tomber de haut
- tout haut
Related terms
Further reading
- “haut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
haut
- inflection of hauen:
- second-person plural present
- third-person singular present
- plural imperative
Hunsrik
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old High German hūt, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-. Cognate with German Haut.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haʊ̯t/
Noun
haut f
- skin; hide
- 2008, Ursula Wiesemann, Contribuição ao desenvolvimento de uma ortografia da língua Hunsrik falada na América do Sul, Associação Internacional de Lingüística – SIL Brasil, page 30:
- praut, kaul, haut – noiva, cavalo, pele
- bride, horse, skin – bride, horse, skin
- (note: the words right of the hyphen are in Portuguese)
- praut, kaul, haut – noiva, cavalo, pele
- 2008, Ursula Wiesemann, Contribuição ao desenvolvimento de uma ortografia da língua Hunsrik falada na América do Sul, Associação Internacional de Lingüística – SIL Brasil, page 30:
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hau̯t/, [häu̯t̪]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /au̯t/, [äu̯t̪]
References
- “haut”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “haut”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- haut in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Luxembourgish
Etymology
Probably from Old High German *hiudu, northern variant of hiutu, though the vocalism is irregular. Similar forms exist in many Moselle Franconian dialects alongside regular forms. Cognate with German heute.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hau̯t/, [hɑʊ̯t]
- Rhymes: -ɑʊt
Audio (file)
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Norman
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Etymology 1
From Old French hault, haut, halt (“high, tall, elevated”), a conflation of Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”) and Latin altus (“high, raised, profound”).
Alternative forms
- haout (Guernsey)
Derived terms
- haute tchaîse (“highchair”)
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Alternative forms
- haû (Jersey)
- ĥa (France)
Synonyms
Old French
Etymology
From Latin altus (“high, tall”), with the /h/ taken from Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈhau̯t/