Etymograph

English

jubé

Jubé comes from French jubé ‘rood screen, jubé’, from Latin iubeō ‘allow, bid’, and ultimately from benedicō ‘deign, O Lord, to bless [me]’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbenedicōas benedīcere‘deign, O Lord, to bless [me]’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiubeō‘allow, bid’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiubēsingular imperative of iubeō
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600jubé
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form‘rood screen, jubé’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1885same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbenedicōas benedīcere‘deign, O Lord, to bless [me]’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiubeō‘allow, bid’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiubēsingular imperative of iubeō
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600jubé
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form‘rood screen, jubé’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1885same form

Earliest quotation: 1885, C. B. Black, The South of France—East Half: “At the N. corner of the first division is…”

Linked words

through Latin benedicō ‘deign, O Lord, to bless [me]’

benedict, 3 more

Today it means

noun Synonym of rood screen.

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Etymograph / Latin benedicō / jubé

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