different between trave vs drave

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

English

Verb

drave

1. (archaic) simple past tense of drive
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 12 p. 196[1]:

     His kingly courage quell: but from his short retyre,

     His reinforced troupes (newe forg’d with sprightly fire)

     Before them drave the Dane, and made the Britaine runne

     (Whom he by liberall wage here to his ayde had wonne)

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society 2005, p. 387:

     I do not know its name, but the Sahib sat in the midst of three silver wheels that made no creaking, and drave them with his legs, prancing like a bean-fed horse—thus.

Anagrams

• Adver., Radev, ervad, raved

Scots

Noun

drave (plural draves)

1. a drove

Verb

drave

1. past tense of drive

Anagrams

• raved