different between trake vs trave

English

Noun

trake (plural trakes)

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of trach
   • 2001, John Barnes and Buzz Aldrin, The Return, Tor/Forge, ?ISBN, page 41,

     "[…] I'll do a trake on him, right now, because his breathing isn't good and I think there's a crushing injury to the neck. […]"

   • 2004, Christopher Young, Anno Domini Book III Amalgamation, Lulu Press, Inc., ?ISBN, page 150,

     "[…] She'll never be able to talk again, and for now she is breathing out of a trake."

   • 2005, Isaiah Baity, Jr., Beyond the Mark of Cain, Trafford Publishing, ?ISBN, page 60,

     Over time my uncle continued to slowly get better but my aunt was concerned about the tracheotomy hole (trake) in his throat. […] ¶ […] My aunt anxiously tried to instruct her to put the trake back in the hole in his throat.

Anagrams

• Akter, kerat-, taker, tarek

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

trake m (definite singular trakeen, indefinite plural trakeer, definite plural trakeene)

1. alternative spelling of traké

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trake m (definite singular trakeen, indefinite plural trakear, definite plural trakeane)

1. alternative spelling of traké

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French trave, from Latin trabem, accusative of trabs (“beam, thing made using beams”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?v, IPA^(key): /t?e?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Noun

trave (plural traves)

1. (architecture) A crossbeam.
2. (architecture) A section formed by crossbeams.
3. A wooden frame to confine unruly horses while they are shod.

Related terms

• architrave

Anagrams

• avert, tarve

Italian

Etymology

From Latin trabem, accusative singular of trabs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tra.ve/

Noun

trave f (plural travi)

1. (architecture) beam, girder, rafter
2. (gymnastics) balance beam

   Synonym: trave di equilibrio

Related terms

• architrave
• travato
• travatura

Anagrams

• verta

Middle English

Noun

trave

1. a wooden cage used to contain horses being shod

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin trabem, accusative singular of trabs.

Noun

trave f (plural traves)

1. crossbeam

Descendants

• ? English: trave

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (trave)

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin trabem, accusative of trabs (“beam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a.?e/

Noun

trave f

1. beam

   • como ??a M de ca?tro xerez guardou agente que sija na ygreia oyndo ?ermon d?a traue que caeu de çima da ygreia ?obreles.

     How holy Mary of Castrojeriz saved the people, who were in the church listening to the sermon, from a beam which fell from above the church on them.

Descendants

• Galician: trabe
• Portuguese: trave

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese trave, from Latin trabem, accusative of trabs (“beam”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?a.vi/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?a.ve/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?t?a.v?/
• Rhymes: -avi
• Hyphenation: tra?ve

Noun

trave f (plural traves)

1. beam

   Synonym: viga

2. (architecture) trave (joist)

   Synonym: barrote

3. (sports) goalpost

Derived terms

• trave olímpica
• travar, entravar

Related terms

• (goalpost): travessão

Further reading

• “trave” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913