haut
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Etymology 1 ===
From Middle English haut, hawt, haute, from Old French haut, halt.
==== Alternative forms ====
haught (obsolete)
haute (obsolete)
hawt (eye dialect)
==== Pronunciation ====
IPA(key): /ˈhɔːt/
Rhymes: -ɔːt
==== Adjective ====
haut (comparative more haut, superlative most haut)
(obsolete) Haughty.
(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 hauteThan to be founde in any ſuch faute.
===== Related terms =====
haute
==== References ====
“haut”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
=== Etymology 2 ===
==== Noun ====
haut (plural hauts)
Alternative form of hauth (“unit of measure”).
=== Anagrams ===
auth, Auth., Auth, UTAH, Utah, HATU, auth.
== Basque ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /hau̯t/ [hau̯t̪]
IPA(key): (Southern) /au̯t/ [au̯t̪]
Rhymes: -au̯t
Hyphenation: haut
=== Verb ===
haut
first-person singular, with familiar second-person singular direct object, present indicative of izan (“to have”, transitive auxiliary)
== 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.
=== Noun ===
haut f (plural hòite, diminutive hòitle)
(Luserna, Sette Comuni) skin
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
hénnahàut
==== Related terms ====
hòitan
=== 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
== Finnish ==
=== Noun ===
haut
nominative plural of haku
=== Anagrams ===
-htua, Utah, uhat
== French ==
=== Etymology ===
Inherited 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 ===
(aspirated h) IPA(key): /o/
(Alsace, Louisiana) IPA(key): [ho]
Rhymes: -o
Homophone: hauts
Homophones: au, aulx, aux, eau, eaux, ho, o, ô, oh (but no aspiration)
Homophone: os (plural only; no aspiration)
=== Adjective ===
haut (feminine haute, masculine plural hauts, feminine plural hautes)
high
tall
early
la plus haute antiquité ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
le haut Moyen-Âge ― the High Middle Ages
==== Derived terms ====
=== Adverb ===
haut
high
==== Derived terms ====
=== Noun ===
haut m (plural hauts)
top
Coordinate term: bas
==== Derived terms ====
=== Related terms ===
hausser
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
“haut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
=== Anagrams ===
huât, Utah
== German ==
=== Pronunciation ===
=== Verb ===
haut
inflection of hauen:
second-person plural present
third-person singular present
plural imperative
== Hunsrik ==
=== Noun ===
haut f (Wiesemann spelling)
alternative spelling of Haut
== Latin ==
=== Alternative forms ===
hau, haud
=== Pronunciation ===
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈhau̯t]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈau̯t]
=== Adverb ===
haut (not comparable)
alternative spelling of haud
=== 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
=== Adverb ===
haut
today
==== Related terms ====
hautdesdaags
== Norman ==
=== Pronunciation ===
=== 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”).
==== Adjective ====
haut m
(Jersey) high
===== 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.)
==== Noun ====
haut ? (plural hauts)
(Jersey) school shark (Galeorhinus galeus)
===== Alternative forms =====
haû (Jersey)
ĥa (France)
===== Synonyms =====
tchian d'mé
== Old French ==
=== Alternative forms ===
halt, hault, alt, aut
=== Etymology ===
From Latin altus (“high, tall”), with the /h/ taken from Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈhau̯t/
=== Adjective ===
haut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular haute)
high (elevated)
=== Adverb ===
haut
high
==== Descendants ====
Middle French: hault, haut, aultFrench: haut
Gallo: haut
Norman: ĥa (Cotentinais), haut (Guernesiais), haû (Jersiais)
Picard: haût, ôt (Athois)
Walloon: waut (Charleroi), ôt, wôt (Forrières), hôt (Liégeois)
→ Middle English: haut, hawt, haute
English: haut, haught, haute, hawt