nave
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Etymology 1[edit]
Ultimately from Latin nāvis, via a Romance source.
Noun[edit]
nave (plural naves)
- (architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English nave, from Old English nafu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō (compare Dutch naaf, German Nabe, Swedish nav), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nebʰ- (“navel”) (compare Latin umbō (“shield boss”), Latvian naba, Sanskrit नाभ (nābha)).
Noun[edit]
nave (plural naves)
- A hub of a wheel.
- --William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2
- 'Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods,
- In general synod take away her power;
- Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
- And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven...
- --William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2
- (obsolete) The navel.
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scene 1:
- Till he faced the slave;/Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,/Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,/And fix'd his head upon our battlements
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scene 1:
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Asturian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin nāvis, nāvem.
Noun[edit]
nave f (plural naves)
Aulua[edit]
Noun[edit]
nave
- water
- Martin Pavior-Smith, Exploring self-concept and narrator characterisation in Aulua (nave):
- Nave ibtavov ben.
- The water went [=was swept] out [of the house].
- Nave ibtavov ben.
- Martin Pavior-Smith, Exploring self-concept and narrator characterisation in Aulua (nave):
Further reading[edit]
- Darrell T. Tryon, New Hebrides languages: an internal classification (1976) (na-βʷe); ABVD 1 (na-fe), 2 (na-ve), 3 (na-ve)
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Portuguese, from Latin nāvis, nāvem.
Noun[edit]
nave f (plural naves)
- ship (watercraft or airship)
- (architecture) nave
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Noun[edit]
nave (plural naves)
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin nāvem, accusative of nāvis, from Proto-Italic *naus ~ *nāwis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us, derived from the root *(s)neh₂- (“to swim, float”).
Pronunciation[edit]
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nave f (plural navi)
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Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
nāve
References[edit]
- nave in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- nave in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nave in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Northern Sami[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
nave
- inflection of navvit:
- present indicative connegative
- second-person singular imperative
- imperative connegative
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Portuguese, from Latin nāvis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -avi
Noun[edit]
nave f (plural naves)
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin nāvis, nāvem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nave f (plural naves)
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Further reading[edit]
- “nave” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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