dove

See also: Dove, dové, dovê, döve, døve, and dov'è

English

rock dove (Columba livia)

Etymology 1

From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, be obscure”). Cognate with Scots doo, dow (“dove”), Saterland Frisian Duuwe (“dove”), West Frisian do (“dove”), Dutch duif (“dove, pigeon”), Low German (Low Saxon) Duuv (“dove, pigeon”), German Taube (“dove, pigeon”), Danish due (“dove”), Swedish duva (“dove”), Icelandic dúfa (“dove”), Gothic 𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (dubo).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʌv/
  • Rhymes: -ʌv
  • Audio (US), noun(file)

Noun

dove (plural doves)

  1. A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
  2. (politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict (as opposed to hawk).
  3. Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
    • Cant. ii. 14
      O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice.
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Etymology 2

A modern dialectal formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive → drove and weave → wove.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dōv, IPA(key): /dəʊv/
  • (US) enPR: dōv, IPA(key): /doʊv/
  • Rhymes: -əʊv
  • Audio (US), verb(file)

Verb

dove

  1. (chiefly Canada, US and English dialect) Strong simple past tense of dive
    • 2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; →ISBN
      When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.
  2. (nonstandard) past participle of dive
Usage notes
  • See dive for dived vs. dove.

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

dove m, f (plural doven)

  1. A deaf person.

Adjective

dove

  1. Inflected form of doof

Verb

dove

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of doven

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin doga, from Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éh₂. Compare Italian doga, Venetian dova, doa, French douve.

Noun

dove f (plural dovis)

  1. stave

Italian

Etymology

From Latin dē ubi, or from a strengthening of the older form ove with a prothetic d-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdove/, [ˈd̪oː.ve]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: dó‧ve

Conjunction

dove

  1. where
    Lo troverai dove l'hai lasciato. ― You'll find it where you left it.

Derived terms

Adverb

dove

  1. (interrogative) where, whereabouts
    Dove vai? ― Where are you going?
    Dove vivi? ― Whereabouts do you live?

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Adjective

dove

  1. neuter singular of doven
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