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dove

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dove"

English edit

 
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rock dove (Columba livia)

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”).

Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /dʌv/
  • Rhymes: -ʌv
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun edit

dove (countable and uncountable, plural doves)

  1. (countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
  2. (countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
    Synonym: peace dove
    Antonym: hawk
  3. (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
  4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
  5. (slang, countable) Short for love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).
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  • → Norwegian Bokmål: due (semantic loan)
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Etymology 2 edit

A modern dialectal formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive → drove and weave → wove.

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Verb edit

dove

  1. (chiefly Canada, US and England dialect) Strong simple past of dive
    • 2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; →ISBN
      When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.
  2. (nonstandard) past participle of dive
Usage notes edit
  • See dive for dived vs. dove.

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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈdoː.və/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: do‧ve

Etymology 1 edit

From doof +‎ -e.

Noun edit

dove m or f (plural doven)

  1. A deaf person.
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Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective edit

dove

  1. inflection of doof:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

dove

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of doven

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Friulian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin doga, from Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éh₂. Compare Italian doga, Venetian dova, doa, French douve.

Noun edit

dove f (plural dovis)

  1. stave

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  • dov' (acopic, before a vowel or 'h')

Etymology edit

From Latin dē ubi, or from a strengthening of the older form ove with a prothetic d-. Compare Piedmontese doa.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈdo.ve/°, (traditional) /ˈdo.ve/*
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ove
  • Hyphenation: dó‧ve

Conjunction edit

dove

  1. where
    Lo troverai dove l'hai lasciato. ― You'll find it where you left it.

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Adverb edit

dove

  1. (interrogative) where, whereabouts
    Dove vai? ― Where are you going?
    Dove vivi? ― Whereabouts do you live?

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Noun edit

dove

  1. Alternative form of douve

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Adjective edit

dove

  1. neuter singular of doven
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