clave
See also: clavé
English
Etymology 1
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Pronunciation
Verb
clave
- (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.
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Etymology 2
From Spanish clave, from Latin clāvis (“key”).
Pronunciation
Noun
clave (plural claves)
Noun
clave (plural claves)
See also
Anagrams
Asturian
Verb
(deprecated template usage) clave
Italian
Noun
clave f
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈklaː.u̯e/, [ˈkɫ̪äːu̯ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkla.ve/, [ˈkläːve]
Noun
(deprecated template usage) clāve
Noun
(deprecated template usage) clāve
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin clāvis. Compare the inherited chave.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -avi
Noun
clave f (plural s)
Spanish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin clāvis (“key”). Compare the inherited doublet llave.
Noun
clave f (plural claves)
- (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)
- password
- Synonym: contraseña
- code
- (music) clef
- (music) clave
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Related terms
Descendants
- → English: clave
Adjective
clave m or f (masculine and feminine plural clave or claves)
- key (important)
- Synonym: importante
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
clave
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