cloven

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English

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -əʊvən
  • Rhymes: -uːvən

Verb

cloven

  1. past participle of cleave

Adjective

cloven

  1. Split, sundered, or divided.
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues
      Do hiss me into madness—[...]
    • 2020, “Seeing God”, performed by The Acacia Strain and Aaron Heard:
      Children of the cloven hooves / Bathe the cross in your father's blood

Derived terms

Translations

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Causative form of clieven, from Old Dutch *clievan, from Proto-Germanic *kleubaną. Related to Middle English cleven and Middle High German klieben.

Verb

cloven

  1. (transitive) to cleave, to cut
    Synonyms: schiden, clieven
    • c. 1475, Des Heiligen Cyrilli Apologi morales:
      Waerom is dijn claeuwe geclooft?
      Why is your claw cleaved?
  2. (transitive) to split
    Synonyms: spliten, *splissen, clieven
  3. (transitive) to separate
    Synonyms: scheiden, verdelen
  4. (transitive) to isolate
    Synonym: sonderen
  5. (intransitive) to break, to become split
    Synonyms: clieven, breken

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Dutch: kloven
    • Afrikaans: kloof

Further reading

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English clofen, ġeclofen, past participle of clēofan, from Proto-Germanic *klubanaz, past participle of *kleubaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklɔːvən/, /ˈklɔːvə/, /iˈklɔːvə/, /əˈklɔːvə/

Verb

cloven

  1. past participle of cleven (“to split”)

Descendants

References

Adjective

cloven

  1. Split, cloven, separated, divided (used of anatomical features)

Descendants

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