nave

See also: Nave, näve, nāve, and nāvē

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: nāv, IPA(key): /neɪv/
  • Rhymes: -eɪv
  • Homophone: knave

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin nāvis, via a Romance source.

Noun

nave (plural naves)

  1. (architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
Derived terms
  • double-nave
Translations
the middle or body of a church

Etymology 2

From Old English nafu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō (compare Dutch naaf, German Nabe), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nobh (“navel”) (compare Latin umbō (“shield boss”), Latvian naba, Sanskrit नाभ (nābha)).

Noun

nave (plural naves)

  1. A hub of a wheel.
    • --William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2
      'Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods,
      In general synod take away her power;
      Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
      And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven...
  2. (obsolete) The navel.
    • William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scene 1:
      Till he faced the slave;/Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,/Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,/And fix'd his head upon our battlements
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Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin nāvis, nāvem.

Noun

nave f (plural naves)

  1. ship

Aulua

Noun

nave

  1. water
    • Martin Pavior-Smith, Exploring self-concept and narrator characterisation in Aulua (nave):
      Nave ibtavov ben.
      The water went [=was swept] out [of the house].

Further reading

  • Darrell T. Tryon, New Hebrides languages: an internal classification (1976) (na-βʷe); ABVD 1 (na-fe), 2 (na-ve), 3 (na-ve)

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from Latin nāvis, nāvem.

Noun

nave f (plural naves)

  1. ship (watercraft or airship)
  2. (architecture) nave

Italian

Etymology

From Latin nāvis, nāvem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.

Pronunciation

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Noun

nave f (plural navi)

  1. ship

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

nāve

  1. ablative singular of navis

References

  • nave in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • nave in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nave in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈnave/

Verb

nave

  1. inflection of navvit:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. imperative connegative

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from Latin nāvis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -avi

Noun

nave f (plural naves)

  1. ship
  2. (architecture) nave, aisle

See also

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin nāvis, nāvem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnabe/, [ˈnaβe]

Noun

nave f (plural naves)

  1. ship
  2. (architecture) nave, aisle

Synonyms

Derived terms


Further reading

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