clave

See also: clavé

English

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kleɪv/

Verb

clave

1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of cleave
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     And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

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     And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.

   • 1868, Thomas Malory, chapter 11, in Le Morte D'Arthur:

     Sir Launcelot put his shield afore him, and put the stroke away of the one giant, and with his sword he clave his head asunder.

Etymology 2

From Spanish clave, from Latin clāvis (“key”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɑːveɪ/

Noun

clave (plural claves)

1. singular of claves

Noun

clave (plural claves)

1. (music) A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.

See also

• Wikipedia article on clave in rhythm

Anagrams

• calve

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Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) clave

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of clavar

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Italian

Noun

clave f

1. plural of clava

Anagrams

• calve

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈklaː.u̯e/, [ˈkɫ̪äːu̯ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.ve/, [ˈkläːve]

Noun

(deprecated template usage) clāve

1. ablative singular of clāvis

Noun

(deprecated template usage) clāve

1. vocative singular of clāvus

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin clāvis. Compare the inherited chave.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -avi

Noun

clave f (plural s)

1. (music) clef (symbol)
2. juggling club

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Spanish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin clāvis (“key”). Compare the inherited doublet llave.

Noun

clave f (plural claves)

1. (figurative) key (to a problem or puzzle)
   • 2019 April 2, Ricardo Baixeras, “'Mañana tendremos otros nombres' : las grietas del amor”, in El Periódico‎^[1]:

     Un texto enormemente sugerente sobre los tiempos actuales y venideros, sobre lo que nos configura, sobre los nuevos roles de la masculinidad y la feminidad y sobre la velocidad como clave de lectura de las relaciones, una velocidad que como quería Ralph Waldo Emerson, cuando uno patina sobre hielo fino, es la salvación.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. password

   Synonym: contraseña

3. code
4. (music) clef
5. (music) clave

Derived terms

• • clave de sol

   

Related terms

• llave

Descendants

• → English: clave

Adjective

clave m or f (masculine and feminine plural clave or claves)

1. key (important)

   Synonym: importante

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

clave

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of clavar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of clavar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of clavar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of clavar.