different between nave vs axel

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: n?v, IPA^(key): /ne?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v
• Homophone: knave

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin n?vis, via a Romance source. Doublet of nef and nau.

Noun

nave (plural naves)

1. (architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.

Derived terms

• double-nave

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English nave, from Old English nafu, from Proto-Germanic *nab? (compare Dutch naaf, German Nabe, Swedish nav), from Proto-Indo-European *h?neb?- (“navel”) (compare Latin umb? (“shield boss”), Latvian naba, Sanskrit ???? (nabhya)).

Noun

nave (plural naves)

1. A hub of a wheel.
   • 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2

     'Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods,

     In general synod take away her power;

     Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,

     And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven...

2. (obsolete) The navel.
   • 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scene 1:

     Till he faced the slave; / Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fix'd his head upon our battlements

Related terms

• navel

Translations

Further reading

• nave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Aven, Evan, Neva, Vena, aven, neva, vane

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin n?vis, n?vem.

Noun

nave f (plural naves)

1. ship

Aulua

Noun

nave

1. water
   • (Can we date this quote?) Martin Pavior-Smith, Exploring self-concept and narrator characterisation in Aulua (nave):

     Nave ibtavov ben.

     The water went [=was swept] out [of the house].

Further reading

• Darrell T. Tryon, New Hebrides languages: an internal classification (1976) (na-??e); ABVD 1 (na-fe), 2 (na-ve), 3 (na-ve)

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from Latin n?vis, n?vem.

Noun

nave f (plural naves)

1. ship (watercraft or airship)
2. (architecture) nave

Related terms

• navegar

Interlingua

Noun

nave (plural naves)

1. ship

Italian

Etymology

From Latin n?vem, accusative of n?vis, from Proto-Italic *naus ~ *n?wis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?us, derived from the root *(s)neh?- (“to swim, float”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na.ve/
• Hyphenation: nà?ve

Noun

nave f (plural navi)

1. ship

Derived terms

• nave costiera
• nave scuola
• navicella

Related terms

• nausea
• nautica
• navale
• navigare
• naviglio

Descendants

• ? Slavomolisano: nava

Anagrams

• vane, vena

Latin

Noun

n?ve

1. ablative singular of navis

References

• nave in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nave in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nave in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Alternative forms

• nawe
• (Northern ME) naff, naffe, naf

Etymology

From Old English nafu, from Proto-West Germanic *nabu, from Proto-Germanic *nab?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?v(?)/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /naf/

Noun

nave (plural naves)

1. nave (hub of a wheel)

Related terms

• nauger
• navel

Descendants

• English: nave
• Scots: naff

References

• “n?ve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?nave/

Verb

nave

1. inflection of navvit:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese nave, from Latin n?vis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh?us. Doublet of nau.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -avi

Noun

nave f (plural naves)

1. ship

   Synonyms: barco, navio

2. (architecture) nave, aisle
3. (Brazil, slang) car

Derived terms

• astronave

Related terms

• naval
• navegar
• navio

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse hnefi.

Noun

nave (plural naves)

1. (Orkney) a clenched fist or a handful

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish naf, naue, from Latin n?vis, n?vem (whence English navigate and navy), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh?us. Cognate with English nave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nabe/, [?na.??e]

Noun

nave f (plural naves)

1. ship, vessel (with a concave hull)

   Synonyms: bajel, barco, buque, navío, nao

2. craft, spaceship, spacecraft (ellipsis of nave espacial), starship (ellipsis of nave estelar)
3. (architecture, religion) nave, aisle

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “nave” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æk.s?l/
• Rhymes: -æks?l
• Homophone: axle

Etymology 1

Named after Norwegian skater Axel Paulsen (1855–1938), who in 1882 became the first to perform the jump.

Noun

axel (plural axels)

1. (figure skating) A jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air.

   Synonym: axel jump

   • 1991, Harvard Magazine, Volume 94, page 44,

     Wylie, however, landed his Olympic axels beautifully and electrified the crowd as he capped a skating career that began at age three in Aspen, Colorado, when he followed two older sisters onto the ice.

   • 1997, Beverley Smith, A Year in Figure Skating, page 115,

     Men had to do triple Axels or at least attempt them with tenacity.

   • 2005, Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, Volume 30, page 746,

     […] King et al. (1994) and King (1997) compared single, double, and triple axels of junior and senior level skaters; Albert and Miller (1996) compared single and double axels of “good” figure skaters; […] .

Derived terms

• double axel
• triple axel

See also

• loop jump
• lutz
• quadruple jump
• sulchow
• waltz jump

Further reading

• Axel jump on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

axel

1. Misspelling of axle.
   • 1755, "A Country Gentleman", A New System of Agriculture; Or, A Plain, Easy, and Demon?trative Method of ?peedily growing Rich, page 177,

     This end of the Axel is to be fa?ten'd into a Wheel, exactly like tho?e, which are us'd in many Places, for the roa?ting Meat.

   • 1900, Municipal Reports of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, page 85,

     Ten 4-wheel hose wagons, three with ballbearing axels and one with roller-bearing axels, all manufactured in the city.

   • 1944, Private and Local Acts Passed by the Legislature of Wisconsin, Publisher not identified, page 627,

     The gross weight on any 2 or more axels shall not exceed 26,000 pounds plus 1,000 pounds for each foot of distance measured longitudinally to the nearest foot between the foremost and rearmost of the axels under consideration.

Anagrams

• Alex, Lexa, axle

Middle English

Alternative forms

• axle, eaxle, æxle, exle

Etymology

From Old English eaxl, from Proto-West Germanic *ahslu, from Proto-Germanic *ahsl?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?aks?l/, /??ks?l/

Noun

axel (plural axeles)

1. shoulder

Descendants

• English: axle (obsolete)
• Scots: aixle, exle

References

• “axel, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish axl, from Old Norse ?xl, from Proto-Germanic *ahsl?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?s-.

Noun

axel c

1. (anatomy) a shoulder; a body part

Declension

Related terms

• axelvadd
• axla

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish axul, from Old Norse ?xull. Related to Latin axis.

Noun

axel c

1. an axis; an imagined line about which something rotates
2. an axle; a rod around which a wheel turns
3. a driveshaft; a rotating rod which transfers torque from a motor to a place where it can be applied
4. (mathematics) an axis; as in coordinate axis

   Den reella axeln

   The real axis

5. a jump in figure skating with one (or more) and a half turns in the air.

Declension

Related terms

• axelmakt
• axeltapp
• koordinataxel
• rotationsaxel
• vevaxel

Anagrams

• Alex