bove

See also: Bove and bovë

English

Alternative forms

  • 'bove

Etymology

From Old English bufan, from Proto-Germanic *bi (“by”) + *ufanē (“from above”). Cognate with Dutch boven. In later use generally intended or considered as an abbreviation of above.

Preposition

bove

  1. Above.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
      Her Sea-god syre she dearely did perswade, / T'endow her sonne with threasure and rich store, / Boue all the sonnes, that were of earthly wombes ybore.

Danish

Noun

bove c

  1. plural indefinite of bov

Interlingue

Noun

bove (plural boves)

  1. bull

Italian

Etymology

From Latin bovem, accusative of bos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Doublet of bue.

Noun

bove m (plural bovi)

  1. ox

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Latin

Noun

bove

  1. ablative singular of bōs
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