different between calves vs calve

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kævz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??vz/
• Homophone: carves (Received Pronunciation)

Noun

calves

1. plural of calf

Verb

calves

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calve

Anagrams

• Sclave, claves

Middle English

Etymology 1

From calf (“calf (young cow)”) +? -es (“plural affix”).

Noun

calves

1. plural of calf (“calf (young cow)”)

Etymology 2

From calf (“calf (anatomy)”) +? -es (“plural affix”).

Noun

calves

1. plural of calf (“calf (anatomy)”)

English

Etymology

From Old English cealfian, from cealf (“calf”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kæv/
• Rhymes: -??v, -æv
• Homophone: carve (some nonrhotic accents, e.g. RP)

Verb

calve (third-person singular simple present calves, present participle calving, simple past and past participle calved)

1. (intransitive) to give birth to a calf
2. (intransitive) to assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf
3. (transitive) to give birth to (a calf)
4. (intransitive, figuratively, especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) to shed a large piece, e.g. an iceberg or a smaller block of ice (coming off an iceberg)

5. (intransitive, figuratively, especially of an iceberg) to break off

6. (transitive, figuratively, especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) to shed (a large piece, e.g. an iceberg); to set loose (a mass of ice), e.g. a block of ice (coming off an iceberg)

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• clave

Italian

Adjective

calve

1. feminine plural of calvo

Noun

calve f

1. plural of calva

Anagrams

• clave

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kal.u?e/, [?kä??u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kal.ve/, [?k?lv?]

Adjective

calve

1. vocative masculine singular of calvus