Wiktionary

clave

See also: clavé

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kleɪv/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪv

Verb edit

clave

  1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of cleave
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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, 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:
      Suddenly a peal of thunder, resonant even above the din of the swinish revelry, clave the very roof and laid a hush of feat upon the boisterous company.

Etymology 2 edit

From Spanish clave, from Latin clāvis (“key”). Doublet of clef.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

clave (plural claves)

  1. singular of claves

Noun edit

clave (plural claves)

  1. (music) A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.

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Asturian edit

Verb edit

clave

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of clavar

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkla.ve/
  • Rhymes: -ave
  • Hyphenation: clà‧ve

Noun edit

clave f

  1. plural of clava

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Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

clāve

  1. ablative singular of clāvis

Noun edit

clāve

  1. vocative singular of clāvus

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin clāvem.[1][2] Doublet of chave.

Pronunciation edit

 
 

Noun edit

clave f (plural claves)

  1. (music) clef (symbol)
  2. juggling club

References edit

  1. ^ “clave” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  2. ^ “clave” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈklabe/ [ˈkla.β̞e]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -abe
  • Syllabification: cla‧ve

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Latin clāvis (“key”). Compare the inherited doublet llave.

Noun edit

clave f (plural claves)

  1. (figurative) key (to a problem or puzzle)
    • 2019 April 2, Ricardo Baixeras, “'Mañana tendremos otros nombres' : las grietas del amor”, in El Periódico‎[1]:
      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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. password
    Synonym: contraseña
    clave WiFi ― WiFi password
  3. code
  4. (music) clef
  5. (music) clave
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Descendants edit
  • → English: clave

Adjective edit

clave m or f (masculine and feminine plural clave or claves)

  1. key (important)
    Synonym: importante
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

clave

  1. inflection of clavar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading edit

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