nave

• enPR: nāv, IPA^(key): /neɪv/

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• Rhymes: -eɪv
• Homophone: knave

Ultimately from Latin nāvem, singular accusative of nāvis, possibly via a Romance source. Doublet of nef and nau.

nave (plural naves)

1. (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.

2. (architecture) The ground-level middle cavity of a barn.

• double-nave

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”) (compare Latin umbō (“shield boss”), Latvian naba, Sanskrit नभ्य (nabhya)).

nave (plural naves)

1. 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 […]

2. (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

• navel

• nave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Aven, Evan, Neva, Vena, aven, neva, vane

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From Latin nāvis, nāvem.

nave f (plural naves)

1. ship

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nave

1. 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].

• Darrell T. Tryon, New Hebrides languages: an internal classification (1976) (na-βʷe); ABVD 1 (na-fe), 2 (na-ve), 3 (na-ve)

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From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin nāvis, nāvem.

nave f (plural naves)

1. ship (watercraft or airship)
2. (architecture) nave

• navegar

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nave (plural naves)

1. ship

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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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.ve/

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• Rhymes: -ave
• Hyphenation: nà‧ve

nave f (plural navi)

1. ship

• nausea
• nautica
• navale
• navigare
• naviglio

• → Slavomolisano: nava

• Neva, vane, vena

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(deprecated template usage) nāve

1. ablative singular of navis

• “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.

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• nawe
• naf, naff, naffe (Northern)

From Old English nafu, from Proto-West Germanic *nabu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːv(ə)/
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nave (plural naves)

1. nave (hub of a wheel)

• nauger
• navel

• English: nave
• Scots: naff

• “nāve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈnave/

nave

1. inflection of navvit:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

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From Old Galician-Portuguese nave, from Latin nāvis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Doublet of nau.

• Rhymes: -avi, -avɨ
• Hyphenation: na‧ve

nave f (plural naves)

1. ship

   Synonyms: barco, navio

2. (architecture) nave, aisle
3. (Brazil, slang) car

• astronave

• naval
• navegar
• navio

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From Old Norse hnefi.

nave (plural naves)

1. (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

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From Old Spanish naf~naue, from Latin nāvem, nāvis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Cognate with English nave, navigate, and navy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnabe/ [ˈna.β̞e]

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• Rhymes: -abe
• Syllabification: na‧ve

nave f (plural naves)

1. ship, vessel (with a concave hull)

   Synonyms: bajel, barco, buque, navío, nao

2. craft, spaceship, spacecraft (ellipsis of nave espacial), starship (ellipsis of nave estelar)
3. (architecture, religion) nave, aisle

• “nave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28