herbe

Inherited from Old French erbe, herbe, from Latin herba, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁- (“to grow, become green”).

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɛʁb/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [zæb]

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herbe f (plural herbes)

1. grass (the plant)
2. (colloquial) weed; marijuana; ganja; cannabis

• “herbe” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise, 4th Edition (1762).
• “herbe” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
• “herbe” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
• “herbe” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “herbe” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “herbe” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “herbe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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herbe

1. inflection of herb:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

• IPA^(key): [ˈɣʲɛɾʲbʲɛ]

hèrbe m

1. locative/vocative singular of hèrbas (“coat of arms”)

• eerbe, erbe, ȝerbe, oerbe, yerbe

From Old French erbe, from Latin herba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛrb(ə)/, /ˈɛːrb(ə)/

herbe (plural herbes)

1. A herbaceous plant:
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Mark 4:31-32, page 17v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     […] as a coꝛn of ſyneuei · which whãne it is ſowen in þe erþe .· is leſſe þan alle ſeedis þat ben in þe erþe / and whãne it is ſpꝛungen up · it wexiþ in to a tree · ⁊ is maad grettir þan alle erbis / and it makiþ grete bꝛaũchis .· ſo þat bꝛiddis of heuene moũ dwelle vndur þe ſchadewe þ̇ of /

     […] like a mustard seed, which is smaller than every [other] seed in the ground when it is sowed, / but after it has sprouted, it grows into a tree that's larger than all the plants and develops long branches so the birds in the sky can nest under its shade.

   1. Such a plant as an ingredient.
   2. Such a plant as used in alchemy, magic or medicine.
2. Herbage (plants, especially grass)
3. (rare) A woody plant; a tree.

• herbage
• herber

• English: herb (dialectal yerb)
• Scots: herb, yerb

• “hē̆rbe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

herbe oblique singular, f (oblique plural herbes, nominative singular herbe, nominative plural herbes)

1. alternative form of erbe