different between trave vs thrave

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English thraven, from Old English þrafian (“to press; urge; compel; rebuke; argue; contend”), from Proto-Germanic *þrab?n? (“to press; drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to scamper; trample; quake; tread”). Cognate with Sirionó troawje, droawje (“to trot”), West Frisian drave (“to trot”), Dutch draven (“to lope; trot”), German traben (“to trot”), Swedish trava (“to trot”), Icelandic þrefa (“to wrangle; dispute”).

Verb

thrave (third-person singular simple present thraves, present participle thraving, simple past and past participle thraved)

1. (transitive, Britain, dialectal) To urge; compel; importune.

Related terms

• thraft

Etymology 2

From Middle English thrave, threve, thrafe, from Old Norse þrefi (“a bunch or handful of sheaves”), related to Old Norse þrifa (“to grasp”). Cognate with Swedish trave, Danish trave.

Alternative forms

• threave (obsolete), threve (obsolete)

Noun

thrave (plural thraves)

1. (Britain, dialect) A sheaf; a handful.
2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) Twenty-four (or in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
3. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) Two dozen, or similar indefinite number; a bunch; a throng.
   • c. 16th century, Lansdowne MS

     The worst of a thrave.

   • c. 1600, Joseph Hall, Satires

     He sends forth thraves of ballads to the sale.

Anagrams

• raveth