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lave
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /le?v/
- Rhymes: -e?v
Etymology 1
From Middle English laven (“to wash; pour out; stream”), from Old English lafian, ?elafian (“to pour water on; refresh; wash”), from Proto-West Germanic *lab?n (“to refresh; revive; strengthen”), influenced, if not wholly borrowed, from Latin lav? (“to wash, bathe”), though sometimes contentiously compared to Ancient Greek ????? (l?phá?, “to recover, rest”) of unknown origin.
Verb
lave (third-person singular simple present laves, present participle laving, simple past and past participle laved)
- (transitive, obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- (transitive) To draw, as water; drink in.
- 2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road, London: Picador, 2007, p. 38.
- The boy walked out and squatted and laved up the dark water.
- 2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road, London: Picador, 2007, p. 38.
- (transitive) To give bountifully; lavish.
- (intransitive) To run down or gutter, as a candle.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To hang or flap down.
- (transitive, intransitive, literary or poetic) To wash.
- 1789, William Lisle Bowles, 'Sonnet I' from Fourteen Sonnets, 1789.
- the tranquil tide, / That laves the pebbled shore.
- 1789, William Lisle Bowles, 'Sonnet I' from Fourteen Sonnets, 1789.
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English lave, laif, lafe (“remainder, rest, that which is left”), from Old English l?f (“lave, remainder, rest”), from Proto-Germanic *laib? (“remainder”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”). Cognate with Old High German leiba (“lave”), Old Norse leif (“lave”), Old English bel?fan (“to remain”). More at belive.
Noun
lave (uncountable)
- (archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 12.
- Then they set upon us and slew some of my slaves and put the lave to flight.
- 1896 (posthumously), Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel and other verses.
- Give to me the life I love, / Let the lave go by me...
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 12.
- (dialectal) A crowd
- 1807, Ancient historic ballads - Page 72:
- Of prelates proud, a populous lave, And abbots boldly there were known.
- 1807, Ancient historic ballads - Page 72:
Synonyms
- (that which is left): remnant, residue; See also Thesaurus:remainder
References
Anagrams
- Leva, Vale, Veal, Vela, avel, eval, leva, vale, veal, vela
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?v?/, [?læ???], [?læ??]
- Rhymes: -a?v?
Etymology 1
From Old Norse laga, derived from lag (“layer”). Cognate with Norwegian lage, Swedish laga.
Verb
lave (imperative lav, infinitive at lave, present tense laver, past tense lavede, perfect tense har lavet)
- to make, create, construct, produce
- to cook, prepare
- to do
- to repair, mend, fix
Inflection
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Adjective
lave
- definite of lav
- plural of lav
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
lave c
- (obsolete) dative singular indefinite of lag
Usage notes
Only used in the fixed expression af lave (“out of order”).
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lav/
Noun
lave f (plural laves)
- (usually uncountable) lava
Derived terms
- fontaine de lave
Verb
lave
- inflection of laver:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “lave” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- leva
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French laver (“wash”).
Verb
lave
- to wash
Italian
Noun
lave f
- plural of lava
Anagrams
- leva
- vale
- vela
Middle English
Verb
lave
- Alternative form of laven
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
lave
- definite singular of lav
- plural of lav
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -avi
Verb
lave
- First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of lavar
- Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present subjunctive of lavar
- Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of lavar
- Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of lavar
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?lave]
Noun
lave f
- indefinite plural of lav?
- indefinite genitive/dative singular of lav?
Scots
Etymology
Middle Scots lave, laif, lafe (“remainder, rest, that which is left”), from Old English l?f (“lave, remainder, rest”). Akin to Old High German leiba (“lave”), Old Norse leif (“lave”), Old English bel?fan (“to remain”). More at leave.
Noun
lave
- (archaic) rest, remainder.
- Ye are bit a wumman lik the lave, an ye maun thole the brunt o whit life mey bring. — Janet's Love and Service
Spanish
Verb
lave
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of lavar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lavar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lavar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of lavar.
Swedish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
lave c
- a towerlike building atop a mine shaft
- a wooden bench in a sauna
Declension
Related terms
- bastulave
- gruvlave
See also
- lav
Anagrams
- elva, leva, vale, vela
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laze
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /le?z/
- Rhymes: -e?z
- Homophones: lase, lays
Etymology 1
Back-formation from lazy.
Verb
laze (third-person singular simple present lazes, present participle lazing, simple past and past participle lazed)
- To be lazy, waste time.
- 1599, Robert Greene, The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon, London, Act III,[1]
- Behold by millions how thy men do fall
- Before Alphonsus like to sillie sheepe.
- And canst thou stand still lazing in this sort?
- 1635, George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, London: John Grismond, Illustration 36, Book 1,[2]
- And, lastly, such are they; that, having got
- Wealth, Knowledge, and those other Gifts, which may
- Advance the Publike-Good, yet, use them not;
- But Feede, and Sleepe, and laze their time away.
- 1892, Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto, being Pictures of a Peculiar People, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, Volume 1, Chapter 13, p. 191,[3]
- But for this anachronism of keeping Saturday holy when you had Sunday also to laze on, Daniel felt a hundred higher careers would have been open to him.
- 1982, Don DeLillo, The Names, New York: Vintage, 1989, Chapter 7, p. 160,[4]
- “I could easily fall into this,” I said. “Laze my way through life. Coffee here, wine there. You can channel significant things into the commonplace. Or you can avoid them completely.”
- 1599, Robert Greene, The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon, London, Act III,[1]
- To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.
- The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
- 1939, Graham Greene, The Lawless Roads, Penguin, 1982, Chapter 4, p. 93,[5]
- A football game went on beside the line; half the teams just lazed on the grass […]
Synonyms
- idle
- loaf
- take it easy
Derived terms
- laze about
- laze around
- lazen
- lazy
Translations
Noun
laze (countable and uncountable, plural lazes)
- (countable) An instance of lazing.
- I had a laze on the beach after lunch.
- (uncountable) Laziness.
- The laze is real.
Etymology 2
Blend of lava +? haze
Noun
laze (uncountable)
- Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.
See also
- vog
Anagrams
- Elza, zale, zeal
Kapin
Noun
laze
- nit
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
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