different between drove vs conclave

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d???v/
  • Rhymes: -??v
• (General American) IPA: /d?o?v/
• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) IPA^(key): /d??o?v/ (Used in some regions of the US, particularly the Midwest)

Etymology 1

From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English dr?f (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draib? (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyb?- (“to drive, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er- (“to support”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.

Noun

drove (plural droves)

1. A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
2. (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
3. (collective) A group of hares.
4. A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven.
5. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
6. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
7. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.

Derived terms

• in droves

Translations

Etymology 2

From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English dr?f, first and third person singular indicative preterite of dr?fan (“to drive”).

Verb

drove

1. simple past tense of drive

drove (third-person singular simple present droves, present participle droving, simple past and past participle droved)

1. To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
2. (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Devor, Dover, Dovre, Voder, roved, vedro, vored

Middle English

Adjective

drove

1. Alternative form of drof

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French conclave, from Latin conclave (“room that may be locked up”), from con- (combining form of cum (“with”)) + cl?vis (“key”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n.?kle?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?n.kle?v/

Noun

conclave (plural conclaves)

1. The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
2. The group of Roman Catholic cardinals locked in a conclave until they elect a new pope; the body of cardinals.
   • February 22, 1685, Robert South, a sermon preached at Westminster Abbey

     It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal.

3. A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.

Derived terms

• in conclave: engaged in a secret meeting; said of a group of people.

Related terms

• clave
• clavis

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conclave.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ko??kla.v?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ku??kla.b?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ko??kla.ve/

Noun

conclave m (plural conclaves)

1. conclave

   Synonym: conclau

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.klav/

Noun

conclave m (plural conclaves)

1. conclave

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conclave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon?kla.ve/

Noun

conclave m (plural conclavi)

1. conclave

Derived terms

• conclavista

Latin

Etymology

From con- +? cl?vis (key).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon?kla?.u?e/, [k???k??ä?u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon?kla.ve/, [k???kl??v?]

Noun

concl?ve n (genitive concl?vis); third declension

1. room, chamber
2. enclosed space that can be locked
3. dining hall

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Descendants

• Catalan: conclave
• English: conclave
• French: conclave
• Italian: conclave
• Portuguese: conclave
• Russian: ???????? (konkláv)
• Spanish: cónclave

References

• conclave in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conclave in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conclave in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• conclave in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• conclave in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conclave in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin