clave
See also: clavé
English
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kleɪv/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪv
Verb
clave
- (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of cleave
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 22:3:
- And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Ruth 1:14:
- And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
- 1868, Thomas Malory, chapter 11, in Le Morte D'Arthur:
- Sir Launcelot put his shield afore him, and put the stroke away of the one giant, and with his sword he clave his head asunder.
- 1917, H. P. Lovecraft, The Tomb:
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Etymology 2
From Spanish clave, from Latin clāvis (“key”). Doublet of clef.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklɑːveɪ/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɑːveɪ
Noun
clave (plural claves)
- singular of claves
Noun
clave (plural claves)
- (music) A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.
See also
Clave (rhythm) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- calve
Asturian
Verb
clave
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of clavar
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkla.ve/
- Rhymes: -ave
- Hyphenation: clà‧ve
Noun
clave f
- plural of clava
Anagrams
- calve
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈklaː.u̯e/, [ˈkɫ̪äːu̯ɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkla.ve/, [ˈkläːve]
Noun
clāve
- ablative singular of clāvis
Noun
clāve
- vocative singular of clāvus
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin clāvis.[1][2] Compare the inherited chave.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkla.vi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkla.ve/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkla.v(ɨ)/
- Rhymes: -avi, -avɨ
- Hyphenation: cla‧ve
Noun
clave f (plural claves)
- (music) clef (symbol)
- juggling club
References
- “clave” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- “clave” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin clāvis (“key”). Compare the inherited doublet llave.
Noun
clave f (plural claves)
- (figurative) key (to a problem or puzzle)
- 2019 April 2, Ricardo Baixeras, “'Mañana tendremos otros nombres' : las grietas del amor”, in El Periódico:
- Un texto enormemente sugerente sobre los tiempos actuales y venideros, sobre lo que nos configura, sobre los nuevos roles de la masculinidad y la feminidad y sobre la velocidad como clave de lectura de las relaciones, una velocidad que como quería Ralph Waldo Emerson, cuando uno patina sobre hielo fino, es la salvación.
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- password
- Synonym: contraseña
- clave WiFi ― WiFi password
- code
- (music) clef
- (music) clave
Derived terms
- clave de sol
- intercambio de claves
Related terms
- llave
Descendants
- → English: clave
Adjective
clave (plural clave or claves)
- key (important)
- Synonym: importante
Derived terms
- palabra clave
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
clave
- inflection of clavar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “clave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014