bove
English
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Etymology
Probably an aphetic form of above. Alternatively, this word may continues Middle English bove, boven, from Old English bufan, from Proto-West Germanic *biobanā, from *bi (“by”) + *ufanā (“from above”). Compare West Frisian boppe, Dutch boven and Low German baven, boven.
Pronunciation
Preposition
bove
- Above.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Her Sea-god syre she dearely did perswade,
T'endow her sonne with threasure and rich store,
Boue all the sonnes, that were of earthly wombes ybore.
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Pronunciation
Noun
bove c
- indefinite plural of bov
Interlingua
Noun
bove (plural boves)
- ox (castrated male bovine, any male bovine)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin bovem, accusative of bos. Doublet of bue.
Pronunciation
Noun
bove m (plural bovi)
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Latin
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Noun
(deprecated template usage) bove
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