nave
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Ultimately from Latin nāvem, singular accusative of nāvis, possibly via a Romance source. Doublet of nef and nau.
Noun
[edit]nave (plural naves)
- (architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- 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.
- (architecture) The ground-level middle cavity of a barn.
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Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English nave, from Old English nafu, from Proto-West Germanic *nabu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō (compare Dutch naaf, German Nabe, Swedish nav), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nebʰ- (“navel, hub”) (compare Latin umbō (“shield boss”), Latvian naba, Sanskrit नभ्य (nabhya)).
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Noun
[edit]nave (plural naves)
- A hub of a wheel.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- '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 […]
- (obsolete) The navel.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- 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
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[edit]Asturian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin nāvis, nāvem.
Noun
[edit]nave f (plural naves)
- ship
- industrial building
- Neses naves del polígunu fain planches de fierro vieyo qu'atopen perahi
- In those industrial buildings they make plates from old iron that they find around.
Aulua
[edit]Noun
[edit]nave
- water
- (Can we date this quote?) Martin Pavior-Smith, Exploring self-concept and narrator characterisation in Aulua (nave):
- Nave ibtavov ben.
- The water went [=was swept] out [of the house].
- (Can we date this quote?) 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]Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nave, from Latin nāvis, nāvem.
Noun
[edit]nave f (plural naves)
- ship (watercraft or airship)
- (architecture) nave
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[edit]Noun
[edit]nave (plural naves)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin nāvem, from Proto-Italic *naus ~ *nāwis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us, derived from the root *(s)neh₂- (“to swim, float”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nave f (plural navi)
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[edit]- → Slavomolisano: nava
Anagrams
[edit]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.
Middle English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English nafu, from Proto-West Germanic *nabu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nave (plural naves)
- nave (hub of a wheel)
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[edit]References
[edit]- “nāve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Northern Sami
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[edit]nave
- inflection of navvit:
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nave, from Latin nāvis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Doublet of nau.
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Noun
[edit]nave f (plural naves)
- ship
- (architecture) nave, aisle
- (Brazil, slang) car
- (colloquial, usually in science fiction) Ellipsis of nave espacial (“spaceship”).
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[edit]Scots
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[edit]Noun
[edit]nave (plural naves)
- (Orkney) a clenched fist or a handful
- ah'll cheust tak a nave-fil ― I'll just take a handful
- He wis rorrin' and shaftin' his nave ― he was shouting and shaking his fist
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish naf, naue, from Latin nāvem, nāvis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Cognate with English nave, navigate, and navy.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nave f (plural naves)
- ship, vessel (with a concave hull)
- craft, spaceship, spacecraft (ellipsis of nave espacial), starship (ellipsis of nave estelar)
- (architecture, religion) nave, aisle
Hyponyms
[edit]- aeronave
- astronave
- cosmonave
- nave de carga (“space cargo ship, space freighter”)
- nave espacial
- nave estelar
- nave nodriza (“mothership”)
Derived terms
[edit]- cocina de la nave (“galley”)
- nave industrial (“industrial building, industrial unit”)
- quemar las naves
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “nave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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