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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ave"

Translingual

Symbol

ave

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Avestan.

English

Etymology 1

From Latin ave.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑːveɪ/, /ˈæveɪ/, /ˈeɪvi/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːveɪ, -æveɪ, -eɪvi

Noun

ave (plural aves)

  1. An Ave Maria.
    • 1913, “Danny Boy”, Frederic Weatherly (lyrics):
      Ye’ll come and find the place where I am lying
      And kneel and say an ave there for me.
  2. A reverential salutation.

Interjection

ave

  1. A reverential salutation.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

ave (plural aves)

  1. Abbreviation of avenue.
  2. Abbreviation of average.

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse agi (“fear, discipline”).

Noun

ave c

  1. discipline, keeping in check
    Du skal holde forureningen i ave.
    You must keep the pollution in check.

Etymology 2

From Latin āve.

Noun

ave n (singular definite avet, plural indefinite ave)

  1. Ave Maria
Inflection
Declension of ave
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ave avet ave avene
genitive aves avets aves avenes

Etymology 3

From Old Norse aga (“frighten, scare”).

Verb

ave (imperative av, infinitive at ave, present tense aver, past tense avede, perfect tense har avet)

  1. discipline, check, restrain
Conjugation
Conjugation of ave
Active Passive
Infinitive ave aves
Present tense aver aves
Past tense avede avedes
Imperative av -
Participle
Present avende
Past avet
Gerund aven

Esperanto

Etymology

From avo +‎ -e.

Adverb

ave

  1. grandfatherly (in the manner or way of a grandfather)

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin ava.

Noun

ave f (plural avis)

  1. grandmother

Synonyms

Related terms

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ave, from Latin avis, avem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis.

Pronunciation

Noun

ave f (plural aves)

  1. bird
    Synonym: (smaller birds) paxaro

References

  • “ave” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “ave” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “ave” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “ave” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “ave” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingua

Etymology 1

From Latin avis.

Noun

ave (plural aves)

  1. bird

Etymology 2

From Latin ave.

Interjection

ave

  1. hail

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ave.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.ve/
  • Rhymes: -ave
  • Hyphenation: à‧ve

Interjection

ave

  1. hail

Noun

ave f

  1. plural of ava

Anagrams

Kabuverdianu

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Portuguese ave.

Noun

ave

  1. (Barlavento) bird

References

  • Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
  • Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

Latin

Etymology 1

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Borrowed with an unspelled /h/ from Punic (ḥawe, “live!”, 2sg. imp.), cognate to Hebrew חוה (“Chava, the biblical Eve”), and as avō from Punic (ḥawū, 2pl. imp.), from Semitic root ḥ-w-y (live). The form might have been contaminated by Etymology 2, especially as the latter one's long vowel also ended up short via iambic shortening; this would explain the reluctance to spell the aspirate, as well as its interpretation as a verb form. Attested since Plautus.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Interjection

avē̆

  1. hail, hello, farewell, greetings! (a formal expression of greeting)
    Synonym: (h)avētō
    Avē̆ atque valē!
    Hail and farewell! (esp. before a long departure and as a last good-bye to the dead).
    Avē̆ imperātor, moritūrī tē salūtant!
    Hail, commander, the ones going to their deaths salute you!
Usage notes
  • Outside of grammarians, the plural (h)avēte is attested only once in Apuleius, who is known for affecting archaisms. This suggests that this greeting didn't usually inflect for number, reflecting its originally being an interjection and not a verbal form; nevertheless, it was eventually widely interpreted as the latter.
  • The other verbal forms cited by grammarians are the future imperative avētō tū, ille (“greetings to you, him”) etc., and the infinitive in the circumlocution avēre tē volō (after the same use with valēre and the very rare salvēre).
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

avē

  1. second-person singular present imperative of aveō

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

ave m

  1. vocative singular of avus

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

ave f

  1. ablative singular of avis

References

  1. ^ Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (2021 April 1 (last accessed)) “Declamationes Minores”, in latin.packhum.org‎ (in Latin), 1.6.1.1

Further reading

  • ave in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • ave in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈave/

Verb

ave

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ave (“hail!”).

Noun

ave n (definite singular avet, indefinite plural aver, definite plural ava or avene)

  1. An Ave Maria

References

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin ave (“hail!”).

Noun

ave n (definite singular avet, indefinite plural ave, definite plural ava)

  1. An Ave Maria

References

Anagrams

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin avis (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis (“bird”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ave f

  1. bird
Descendants
  • Galician: ave
  • Portuguese: ave

Etymology 2

From Latin avē (“hail”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.βe/, /a.ˈβɛ/

Noun

ave f

  1. hail (introduces a formal greeting)
Descendants

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin avē̆.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.vɛ/
  • Rhymes: -avɛ
  • Syllabification: a‧ve

Interjection

ave

  1. (literary) ave (reverential salutation)

Further reading

  • ave in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese ave (“bird”), from Latin avis (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis (“bird”).

Pronunciation

 
 

Noun

ave f (plural aves)

  1. bird
    Synonym: pássaro
    Todas as aves têm asas.
    All birds have wings.
Descendants
  • Kabuverdianu: avi

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese ave, from Latin avē (“hail”).

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: a‧ve

Interjection

ave!

  1. hail (introduces a formal greeting)
    Synonym: salve
    Ave César!
    Hail Caesar!
  2. Clipping of ave Maria.
Derived terms

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ave.

Interjection

ave

  1. ave (salutation)

References

  • ave in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Sardinian

Pronunciation

Noun

ave f (plural aves)

  1. (Nuorese) Alternative form of ae
    Synonyms: achedda, puzone

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈabe/
  • Rhymes: -abe
  • Syllabification: a‧ve

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish ave, from Latin avem, from Proto-Italic *awis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis.

Noun

ave f (plural aves)

  1. bird
    Synonym: (especially small birds) pájaro
  2. (Chile) fowl, poultry
Usage notes
  • Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
    el ave, un ave
  • They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.
  • Ave is also the scientific term, while pájaro is used more in common speech for the smaller birds.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Spanish ave, from Latin avē (“hello, hail”).

Interjection

ave

  1. (used when coming into a house) hello, hail

Etymology 3

From the acronym AVE (Alta Velocidad Española), meaning high-speed train (written mostly all caps).

Noun

ave f (plural aves)

  1. (Spain) train
    Cogeremos el ave el día 23 por la tarde.
    We will take the train on the 23rd in the afternoon.

Further reading

Tolai

Alternative forms

  • avet (when not preceding a verb)

Pronoun

ave

  1. First-person exclusive plural pronoun: they (many) and I, them (many) and me

Declension

Tolai personal pronouns
singular dual paucal plural
1st person exclusive iau amir
mir 		amital
mital 		avet
ave1
1st person inclusive - dor datal dat
da1
2nd person u amur
mur 		amutal
mutal 		avat
ava1
3rd person ia
i 		dir
di 		dital diat
dia1
1) The plural pronouns lose the final -t when preceding a verb.


Venetian

Noun

ave

  1. plural of ava
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