different between lavender vs lave

English

Etymology

From Middle English lavendre, from Anglo-Norman lavendre (French: lavande), from Medieval Latin lavendula, possibly from Latin lividus (“bluish”), but influenced by lavare (“wash”) due to use of lavender in washing clothes.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?læv.?n.d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?læv.?n.d?/

Noun

lavender (countable and uncountable, plural lavenders)

1. Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
2. A pale purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.

3. (film, historical, uncountable) A kind of film stock for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.

Hyponyms

• (plant): common lavender

Derived terms

• lavender water
• sea lavender
• spike lavender

Related terms

• launder

Translations

See also

• lavender on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lavandula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Lavandula on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Appendix:Colors

Adjective

lavender (comparative more lavender, superlative most lavender)

1. Having a pale purple colour.
2. (politics) Pertaining to LGBT people and rights
3. (politics) Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Verb

lavender (third-person singular simple present lavenders, present participle lavendering, simple past and past participle lavendered)

1. (transitive) To decorate or perfume with lavender.

Anagrams

• Vreeland

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French lavandiere, from Medieval Latin lavand?rius.

Alternative forms

• lavendere, lavendre, lavendeer, lawender, lawnder, lawndere, launder

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lav?n?de?r/, /?lav?nd?r/, /lau?n?de?r/, /?lau?nd?r/

Noun

lavender (plural lavenderes)

1. A washer; one (especially a woman) who washes clothes.
2. (euphemistic) A woman employed in prostitution or having loose morals.

Related terms

• lavendrye

Descendants

• English: launder
• Scots: launer

References

• “lavender(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-24.

Etymology 2

From Old French lavendre.

Noun

lavender

1. Alternative form of lavendre

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)

1. (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?)

2. (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.

3. (transitive) To give bountifully; lavish.
4. (intransitive) To run down or gutter, as a candle.
5. (intransitive, dialectal) To hang or flap down.
6. (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.

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)

1. (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...

2. (dialectal) A crowd
   • 1807, Ancient historic ballads - Page 72:

     Of prelates proud, a populous lave, And abbots boldly there were known.

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)

1. to make, create, construct, produce
2. to cook, prepare
3. to do
4. to repair, mend, fix

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

lave

1. definite of lav
2. plural of lav

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

lave c

1. (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)

1. (usually uncountable) lava

Derived terms

• fontaine de lave

Verb

lave

1. inflection of laver:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. 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

1. to wash

Italian

Noun

lave f

1. plural of lava

Anagrams

• leva
• vale
• vela

Middle English

Verb

lave

1. Alternative form of laven

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

lave

1. definite singular of lav
2. plural of lav

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -avi

Verb

lave

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of lavar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of lavar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of lavar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of lavar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lave]

Noun

lave f

1. indefinite plural of lav?
2. 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

1. (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

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of lavar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lavar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lavar.
4. 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

1. a towerlike building atop a mine shaft
2. a wooden bench in a sauna

Declension

Related terms

• bastulave
• gruvlave

See also

• lav

Anagrams

• elva, leva, vale, vela