Abeleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French aubel, aubiel, from Medieval Latin albellus (“white poplar”), diminutive of Latin albus (“white”). Some forms after Middle Dutch abeel, from Old French.

Abele; White poplar

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /əˈbiːl/, /ə.ˈbeɪl/, /ˈeɪ.bl̩/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈbil/, /ə.ˈbeɪl/, /ˈeɪ.bl̩/

名詞

abele (複数形 abeles)

1. The white poplar (Populus alba). [from 13th c.]
   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 114:

     But I account for my predilection, by the kind of pensive and melancholy peasure I used to feel, when in my childhood and early youth, I walked alone, in a long avenue of arbeal […] .

   • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browing, The Rhyme of the Duchess May, line 5:

     Six abeles i' the churchyard grow