couve
See also: couvé
French edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /kuv/
- Homophones: couves, couvent
Verb edit
couve
- inflection of couver:
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese couve, from earlier *coue, from Latin caulis (“stem of a cabbage”), from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”). Doublet of caule.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: cou‧ve
Noun edit
couve f (plural couves)
- several leaf vegetables, from the family Brassica oleracea
- kale (plant)
- cabbage (plant)
- Synonym: repolho
- collard greens (plant)
- Synonym: couve-galega
- couves (small truck on horse or rope hauled railway)