nave
English
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Pronunciation
- enPR: nāv, IPA(key): /neɪv/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪv
- Homophone: knave
Etymology 1
Ultimately from Latin nāvem, singular accusative of nāvis, possibly via a Romance source. Doublet of nef and nau.
Noun
nave (plural naves)
- (architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
- 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.
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- (architecture) The ground-level middle cavity of a barn.
Derived terms
- double-nave
Translations
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Etymology 2
From Middle English nave, from Old English nafu, from Proto-West Germanic *nabu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō (compare Dutch naaf, German Nabe, Swedish nav), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nebʰ- (“navel, hub”) (compare Latin umbō (“shield boss”), Latvian naba, Sanskrit नभ्य (nabhya)).
Noun
nave (plural naves)
- A hub of a wheel.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
- '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 […]
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- (obsolete) The navel.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
- 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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Related terms
- navel
Translations
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Further reading
nave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Aven, Evan, Neva, Vena, aven, neva, vane
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin nāvis, nāvem.
Noun
nave f (plural naves)
- ship
Aulua
Noun
nave
- water
- (Can we date this quote?) Martin Pavior-Smith, Exploring self-concept and narrator characterisation in Aulua (nave):
- Nave ibtavov ben.
- The water went [=was swept] out [of the house].
- Nave ibtavov ben.
- (Can we date this quote?) Martin Pavior-Smith, Exploring self-concept and narrator characterisation in Aulua (nave):
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)
- ship (watercraft or airship)
- (architecture) nave
Related terms
- navegar
Interlingua
Noun
nave (plural naves)
- ship
Italian
Etymology
From Latin nāvem, from Proto-Italic *naus ~ *nāwis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us, derived from the root *(s)neh₂- (“to swim, float”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈna.ve/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ave
- Hyphenation: nà‧ve
Noun
nave f (plural navi)
- ship
Derived terms
- nave ammiraglia
- nave costiera
- nave scuola
- navicella
Related terms
- nausea
- nautica
- navale
- navigare
- naviglio
Descendants
- → Slavomolisano: nava
Anagrams
- Neva, vane, vena
Latin
Noun
nāve
- 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
Middle English
Alternative forms
- nawe
- naf, naff, naffe (Northern)
Etymology
From Old English nafu, from Proto-West Germanic *nabu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnaːv(ə)/
- (Northern) IPA(key): /naf/
Noun
nave (plural naves)
- nave (hub of a wheel)
Related terms
- nauger
- navel
Descendants
- English: nave
- Scots: naff
References
- “nāve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈnave/
Verb
nave
- inflection of navvit:
- present indicative connegative
- second-person singular imperative
- imperative connegative
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese nave, from Latin nāvis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Doublet of nau.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈna.vi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈna.ve/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈna.v(ɨ)/
- Rhymes: -avi, -avɨ
- Hyphenation: na‧ve
Noun
nave f (plural naves)
- ship
- Synonyms: barco, navio
- (architecture) nave, aisle
- (Brazil, slang) car
Derived terms
- astronave
Related terms
- naval
- navegar
- navio
Scots
Etymology
From Old Norse hnefi.
Noun
nave (plural naves)
- (Orkney) a clenched fist or a handful
- ah'll cheust tak a nave-fil ― I'll just take a handful
- He wis rorrin' and shaftin' his nave ― he was shouting and shaking his fist
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish naf, naue, from Latin nāvem, nāvis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Cognate with English nave, navigate, and navy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnabe/ [ˈna.β̞e]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -abe
- Syllabification: na‧ve
Noun
nave f (plural naves)
- ship, vessel (with a concave hull)
- Synonyms: bajel, barco, buque, navío, nao
- craft, spaceship, spacecraft (ellipsis of nave espacial), starship (ellipsis of nave estelar)
- (architecture, religion) nave, aisle
Hyponyms
- aeronave
- astronave
- cosmonave
- nave de carga (“space cargo ship, space freighter”)
- nave espacial
- nave estelar
- nave nodriza (“mothership”)
Derived terms
- cocina de la nave (“galley”)
- nave industrial (“industrial building, industrial unit”)
- quemar las naves
Related terms
- naval
- navegación
- navegar
- navigar
- navío
Further reading
- “nave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014