aloe

From Old English alwe (“fragrant resin of an East Indian tree”), from Latin aloē, from Ancient Greek ἀλόη (alóē), from Hebrew אֲהָלִים‎, ultimately from a Dravidian language through Sanskrit कालागुरु (kālāguru, “agarwood”); reinforced in Middle English by Old French aloes.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.loʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.ləʊ/
• Rhymes: -æləʊ

aloe (plural aloes)

1. (in the plural) The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma.
2. A plant of the genus Aloe.
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).

• aloe vera

• → Irish: aló
• → Samoan: aloe

• agave
• maguey

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• aole

From Latin aloe

aloe m or f (invariable)

1. aloe (plant)

• Aleo

From Ancient Greek ἀλόη (alóē, “aloes”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lo.eː/, [ˈa.ɫɔ.eː]

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, Greek type.

• → Armenian: ալոէ (aloē)
• → Dutch: aloë
  • Afrikaans: aalwyn
  • → Japanese: アロエ (aroe)
• → Estonian: aaloe
• → Finnish: aaloe
• → German: Aloe
• → Hungarian: aloé
• → Italian: aloe
• → Japanese: 蘆薈 (rokai)
  • → Okinawan: 蘆薈 (rugwai, dugwai)
• → Old English: alwe
  • English: aloe
    • → Irish: aló
    • → Samoan: aloe
• Old French: aloes
  • French: aloès
    • → Polish: aloes
    • → Romanian: aloe
  • Norman: aloé
• → Old Irish: aloe
• → Portuguese: aloe
• → Russian: ало́э n (alóe)
• → Scottish Gaelic: àloe
• → Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: алоја

Latin: aloja

• → Swedish: aloe
• → Ukrainian: алое (aloe)
• → Translingual: Aloe
• → Translingual: Aloë

• 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, 1883–1887)

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)

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

From Latin aloe

• áloe, aloé

aloe f (plural aloes)

1. aloe (plant of the genus Aloe)

Borrowed from French aloès and Latin aloē.

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.