aubade
English
WOTD – 24 October 2022
Etymology
| PIE word |
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| *albʰós |
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Verses from an 1863 aubade or poem evoking the dawn (sense 1) by the Galician poet Rosalía de Castro (1837–1885) inscribed on a monument in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The first verse of the poem reads: “I was born when plants are born, / In the month in which the flowers are born, / In a serene dawn, / On an April dawn.”
An aubade or morning concert (sense 2) held on 19 February 1947 in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia), to celebrate the birth of Princess Christina of the Netherlands.
Borrowed from French aubade, from Old French albade, from Old Spanish albada (“musical or poetic composition to be performed in the morning”), from alba (“dawn”), from Vulgar Latin *alba (“dawn; sunrise”), from Latin albus (“bright, clear; white”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əʊˈbɑːd/, /-ˈbæd/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /oʊˈbɑd/
- Rhymes: -ɑːd, -æd
- Hyphenation: au‧bade
Noun
aubade (plural aubades)
- (music, poetry) A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.
- 1873 August, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[I. Tales of a Wayside Inn.] The Student’s Tale. Emma and Eginhard.”, in Aftermath, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., OCLC 15121058, page 27:
- And there he lingered till the crowing cock, / The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, / Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, / To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, chapter 11, in Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), London: William Heinemann, published 1968, →ISBN, page 155:
- Alladad Khan woke to the far crying of kampong cocks in the dark. That noise had been the farmyard aubade in the Punjab in his dream.
- (music, specifically) A morning love song, or a song of lovers parting in the morning.
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- (music) A concert held at dawn or in the morning, especially outdoors.
Coordinate terms
- nocturne
- serenade
Translations
poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning
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morning love song; song of lovers parting in the morning
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concert held at dawn or in the morning, especially outdoors
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References
- Compare “aubade, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021; “aubade, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
aubade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French aubade, from Middle French aubade, from Old Occitan aubada.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌoːˈbaː.də/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: au‧ba‧de
- Rhymes: -aːdə
Noun
aubade f (plural aubades)
- A song or musical performance to honour someone, performed in the morning.
- (uncommon, chiefly historical) An aubade, a morning love song.
Related terms
- albino
- album
- albumen
Descendants
- → Indonesian: aubade
French
Etymology
From Old French albade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.bad/
Audio (file) Audio (Paris) (file)
Noun
aubade f (plural aubades)
- aubade (song; poem)
- aubade (love song)
Descendants
- → Dutch: aubade
- → Indonesian: aubade
- → English: aubade
Further reading
- “aubade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch aubade, from French aubade, from Old French albade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [au̯ˈbadə]
- Hyphenation: au‧ba‧dê
Noun
aubadê (first-person possessive aubadeku, second-person possessive aubademu, third-person possessive aubadenya)
- aubade:
- a song or poem greeting or evoking the dawn.
- a morning love song; a song of lovers parting in the morning.
- a song or musical performance to honour someone, performed in the morning.
Further reading
- “aubade” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.