trave
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English trave, from Middle French trave, from Latin trabem, accusative of trabs (“beam, thing made using beams”).
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trave (plural traves)
- (architecture) A crossbeam.
- (architecture) A section formed by crossbeams.
- A wooden frame to confine unruly horses while they are shod.
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trave f (plural travi)
- (architecture) beam, girder, rafter
- (gymnastics) balance beam
- Synonym: trave di equilibrio
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French trave, from Latin trabem, from Proto-Indo-European *treb-.
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- English: trave
References edit
- “trā̆ve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin trabem, accusative singular of trabs.
Noun edit
trave f (plural traves)
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- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (trave)
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin trabem, accusative of trabs (“beam”).
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trave f
- beam
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 266 (facsimile):
- como ſṫa M de caſtro xerez guardou agente que sija na ygreia oyndo ſermon dũa traue que caeu de çima da ygreia ſobreles.
- How holy Mary of Castrojeriz saved the people, who were in the church listening to the sermon, from a beam which fell from above the church on them.
- como ſṫa M de caſtro xerez guardou agente que sija na ygreia oyndo ſermon dũa traue que caeu de çima da ygreia ſobreles.
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Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese trave, from Latin trabem (“beam”).
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Noun edit
trave f (plural traves)
- beam
- Synonym: viga
- (architecture) trave (joist)
- Synonym: barrote
- (sports) goalpost
- (sports) crossbar
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- (goalpost): travessão
Further reading edit
- “trave” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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trave
- inflection of travar:
Serbo-Croatian edit
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trave (Cyrillic spelling траве)
- inflection of trava:
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Swedish þravi. Cognate of English thrave (“sheaf”).
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trave c
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Declension of trave | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | trave | traven | travar | travarna |
Genitive | traves | travens | travars | travarnas |
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See also edit
- stapel (“tall stack”)
References edit
- trave in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- trave in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- trave in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- trave in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)