different between trape vs trave

English

Etymology

Perhaps via Medieval Latin *trappa, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *trap-, from Proto-Indo-European *dreb-, from *der- (“to walk, step”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?p/

Noun

trape (plural trapes)

1. (obsolete) A messy or untidy woman.
   • 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:

     Hard was his fate in this I own, / Nor will I for the trapes atone; / Indeed to guess I am not able, / What made her thus inexorable […]

Verb

trape (third-person singular simple present trapes, present participle traping, simple past and past participle traped)

1. (intransitive) To drag.
2. (intransitive) To run about idly or like a slattern.

Anagrams

• Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, treap

Old French

Alternative forms

• trappe

Etymology

Frankish *trappa (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *trap-, *tramp- (“to step”), from Proto-Indo-European *dremb- (“to run”). More at English trap.

Noun

trape f (oblique plural trapes, nominative singular trape, nominative plural trapes)

1. trap (device design to ensnare or trap)
2. hiding place

Descendants

• French: trappe

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (trape)
• trappe on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Spanish

Etymology

From French draper. Assimilated to trapo.

Noun

trape m (plural trapes)

1. (dated) intermediate fabric used to make drapery

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