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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

Etymology

A corrupt form arising from the older "at þen ale".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?l/
• Homophone: nail

Noun

nale

1. (obsolete) ale
2. (obsolete) An alehouse.

   • great feastes at the nale

Anagrams

• Alne, ELAN, Lane, Lean, Lena, Neal, elan, enal, lane, lean, neal, élan

Silesian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *a le, from Proto-Indo-European *ályos.

Conjunction

nale

1. but