trave

See also: Trave and trávě

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: trāv, IPA^(key): /tɹeɪv/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪv

Noun

trave (plural traves)

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

Related terms

• architrave

Anagrams

• avert, tarve

Italian

Etymology

From Latin trabem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtra.ve/
• Rhymes: -ave
• Hyphenation: trà‧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, vertà

Middle English

Alternative forms

• trawe

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French trave, from Latin trabem, from Proto-Indo-European *treb-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtraːv(ə)/

Noun

trave (plural traves) (rare)

1. A beam or pole.
2. A wooden cage for containing horses that are being shod.

Descendants

• English: trave

References

• “trā̆ve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin trabem, accusative singular of trabs.

Noun

trave f (plural traves)

1. crossbeam

Descendants

• → Middle English: trave, trawe
  • 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 Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾa.βe/

Noun

trave f

1. beam
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 266 (facsimile):

     como ſṫa M de caſtro xerez guardou agente que sija na ygreia oyndo ſermon dũa traue que caeu de çima da ygreia ſobreles.

     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 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese trave, from Latin trabem (“beam”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾa.vi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾa.vi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾa.ve/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾa.vɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾa.vɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾa.bɨ/ [ˈtɾa.βɨ]

• Rhymes: -avi, -avɨ
• Hyphenation: tra‧ve

Noun

trave f (plural traves)

1. beam

   Synonym: viga

2. (architecture) trave (joist)

   Synonym: barrote

3. (sports) goalpost
4. (sports) crossbar

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

Etymology 2

Verb

trave

1. inflection of travar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

trave (Cyrillic spelling траве)

1. inflection of trava:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish þravi. Cognate of English thrave (“sheaf”).

Noun

trave c

1. a neat stack

   en trave med ved/böcker

   a stack of wood/books

Declension

Declension of trave
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	trave	traven	travar	travarna
Genitive	traves	travens	travars	travarnas

Derived terms

• trava
• vedtrave

See also

• stapel (“tall stack”)

References

• trave in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• trave in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• trave in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• trave in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)