different between cloven vs clove

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??v?n
• Rhymes: -u?v?n

Verb

cloven

1. past participle of cleave

Adjective

cloven

1. Split, sundered, or divided.
   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2

     CALIBAN:

     [...]

     His spirits hear me,

     And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch

     Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire,

     Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark

     Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but

     For every trifle are they set upon me,

     Sometimes like apes that now and chatter at me,

     And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which

     Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount

     Their pricks at my footfall; sometimes am I

     All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues

     Do hiss me into madness—

     [...]

Derived terms

• cloven foot, cloven-footed
• cloven hoof, cloven-hoofed

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• clove, clofenn, clovyn, clofen, i-clove, y clove

Etymology

From Old English clofen, ?eclofen, past participle of cl?ofan, from Proto-Germanic *klubanaz, past participle of *kleuban?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kl??v?n/, /?kl??v?/, /i?kl??v?/, /??kl??v?/

Verb

cloven

1. past participle of cleven (“to split”)

Descendants

• English: cloven
• Scots: clowen, cloen

References

• “cl?ve(n, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-31.

Adjective

cloven

1. Split, cloven, separated, divided (used of anatomical features)

Descendants

• English: cloven
• Scots: clowen, cloen

References

• “cl?ve(n, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-31.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kl??v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /klo?v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Etymology 1

From Middle English clove, an alteration of earlier clowe, borrowed from the first component of Old French clou (de girofle) (modern French clou de girofle), from Latin cl?vus (“nail”) for its shape. Also see cl?va (“knotty branch, club”). Doublet of clou.

Noun

clove (countable and uncountable, plural cloves)

1. (uncountable, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
2. (countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
3. (countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
   • 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202.

     Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod 6+¹?₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word cloves; it calls them ' claves or nails.' It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.

Derived terms

• clove camphor
• clove gillyflower
• clove pink (Dianthus caryophyllus)

Related terms

• cloy
• cloying

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English clove, from Old English clufu, from Proto-Germanic *klub?, related to cl?ofan (“to cleave, split”), hence with the verbal etymology hereafter.

Noun

clove (plural cloves)

2. Any one of the separate bulbs that make up the larger bulb of garlic.

Translations

Etymology 3

Verb

clove

1. simple past tense of cleave

Related terms

• cloven

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Dutch kloof.

Noun

clove (plural cloves)

1. (geography) A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch

Usage notes

• Mainly used in proper names, such as Kaaterskill Clove.

Further reading

• clove on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Covel

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English clufu, clofu; compare cleven.

Alternative forms

• clof, clowe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kl??v(?)/

Noun

clove (plural cloves)

1. clove (bulb of garlic)

Descendants

• English: clove
• Scots: clow

References

• “cl?ve, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.

Etymology 2

From Old French clou de girofle.

Noun

clove

1. Alternative form of clowe

Etymology 3

From Old English clofen, past participle of cl?ofan.

Noun

clove

1. Alternative form of cloven

Etymology 4

From Old English cl?af, 1st- and 3rd- person simple past singular of cl?ofan, with the vowel from the past participle.

Verb

clove

1. simple past singular of cleven (“to split”)