exclave

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-der.

Middle French ex-bor.

Middle English ex-

English ex-

English (en)clave

English exclave

From ex- + (en)clave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛkskleɪv/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

exclave (plural exclaves)

1. A portion of a country's territory not connected to the main part.

   Coordinate terms: enclave, pene-enclave, pene-exclave

   Alaska and Kaliningrad are both examples of exclaves.

   • 2006 March 24, r, “World's smallest enclave?”, in Micro-Nations.com (MNO)‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 August 2008:

     While there has never been a macronational bedroom nation, some exclaves have been barely larger.

   • 2022 March 10, Daniel Howden, “Europe has rediscovered compassion for refugees – but only if they’re white”, in The Guardian‎^[2], archived from the original on 5 April 2022:

     Spain’s Melilla, one of two small exclaves of EU land on the African continent, has long been the strongest distillation of fortress Europe.

   • 2022 August 24, Ruth Cassidy, “Crusader Kings 3 update looks to tone-down the 'border gore' of endless conquest”, in PC Gamer‎^[3], archived from the original on 3 October 2022:

     France, but the shape of a giraffe, with a number of its counties belonging to Wales, with an odd little exclave far up North in Norway? That's border gore.

2. (medicine, rare) A detached part of an organ, as of the pancreas, thyroid (accessory thyroids), or other gland.

Translations

a country's territory not connected to the main part

• Armenian: էքսկլավ (ēkʻsklav)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 外飛地 / 外飞地 (zh)

• Danish: eksklave c
• Dutch: exklave
• Finnish: eksklaavi (fi)
• French: exclave (fr) f
• Georgian: ექსკლავი (eksḳlavi)
• German: Exklave (de) f
• Hawaiian: lele
• Indonesian: eksklave (id)
• Macedonian: екскла́ва f (ekskláva)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eksklave m

  Nynorsk: eksklave m

• Polish: eksklawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: exclave m
• Russian: экскла́в (ru) m (ekskláv)
• Spanish: exclave m
• Swedish: exklav c
• Thai: ดินแดนส่วนแยก (din-dɛɛn-sùuan-yɛ̂ɛk)
• Welsh: allglofan

Verb

exclave (third-person singular simple present exclaves, present participle exclaving, simple past and past participle exclaved) (transitive)

1. To separate a region in a way that turns it into an exclave.

Ligurian

Noun

exclave m (please provide plural)

1. exclave

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin exbor.

Portuguese ex-

French enclavebor.

Portuguese (en)clave

Portuguese exclave

From ex- + (en)clave.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈkla.vi/, /esˈkla.vi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈkla.vi/, /esˈkla.vi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃˈkla.vi/, /eʃˈkla.vi/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐjʃˈkla.vɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐjʃˈkla.vɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ejʃˈkla.bɨ/ [ejʃˈkla.βɨ]
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ejʃˈkla.vɨ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /eʃˈkla.vɨ/

• Rhymes: -avi, -avɨ
• Hyphenation: ex‧cla‧ve

Noun

exclave m (plural exclaves)

1. (geography) exclave (portion of a country's territory not connected to the main part)

   Coordinate term: enclave

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɡsˈklabe/ [eɣ̞sˈkla.β̞e]
• Rhymes: -abe
• Syllabification: ex‧cla‧ve

Noun

exclave m (plural exclaves)

1. exclave

Further reading

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “exclave”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA