nave
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Ultimately from Latin nāvis, via a Romance source. Doublet of nef and nau.
NounEdit
nave (plural naves)
- (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.
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English nave, from Old English nafu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō (compare Dutch naaf, German Nabe, Swedish nav), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nebʰ- (“navel”) (compare Latin umbō (“shield boss”), Latvian naba, Sanskrit नाभ (nābha)).
NounEdit
nave (plural naves)
- A hub of a wheel.
- 1599-1601, 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...
- 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2
- (obsolete) The navel.
- 1606, 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
- 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scene 1:
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AsturianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin nāvis, nāvem.
NounEdit
nave f (plural naves)
AuluaEdit
NounEdit
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 readingEdit
- Darrell T. Tryon, New Hebrides languages: an internal classification (1976) (na-βʷe); ABVD 1 (na-fe), 2 (na-ve), 3 (na-ve)
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese, from Latin nāvis, nāvem.
NounEdit
nave f (plural naves)
- ship (watercraft or airship)
- (architecture) nave
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InterlinguaEdit
NounEdit
nave (plural naves)
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin nāvem, accusative of nāvis, from Proto-Italic *naus ~ *nāwis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us, derived from the root *(s)neh₂- (“to swim, float”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nave f (plural navi)
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DescendantsEdit
- → Slavomolisano: nava
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LatinEdit
NounEdit
nāve
ReferencesEdit
- 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 EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old English nafu, from Proto-West Germanic *nabu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nave (plural naves)
- nave (hub of a wheel)
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DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “nāve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Northern SamiEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
nave
- inflection of navvit:
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese nave, from Latin nāvis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Doublet of nau.
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -avi
NounEdit
nave f (plural naves)
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ScotsEdit
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NounEdit
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
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Spanish naf, naue, from Latin nāvis, nāvem (whence English navigate and navy), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Cognate with English nave.
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NounEdit
nave f (plural naves)
- ship vessel (with a concave hull)
- craft, spaceship, spacecraft (ellipsis of nave espacial), starship (ellipsis of nave estelar)
- (architecture, religion) nave, aisle
HyponymsEdit
- nave de carga (“space cargo ship, space freighter”)
- nave estelar
- nave nodriza (“mothership”)
- aeronave
- astronave
- cosmonave
- nave espacial
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- cocina de la nave (“galley”)
- nave industrial (“industrial building, industrial unit”)
- quemar las naves
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Further readingEdit
- “nave” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.