dove
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rock dove (Columba livia)
See also: Appendix:Variations of "dove"
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”).
Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō).
Pronunciation
Noun
dove (countable and uncountable, plural doves)
- (countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
- (countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
- Synonym: peace dove
- Antonym: hawk
- (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Song of Solomon 2:14:
- O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice.
- A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
- (slang, countable) Short for love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).
Synonyms
- (pigeon): columbid, columbiform, culver, pigeon
Derived terms
Derived terms
- Barbary dove (Streptopelia risoria)
- bar-shouldered dove
- beautiful fruit dove
- collared dove
- cuckoo dove, cuckoo-dove
- cushat dove, cushat-dove
- dead dove
- diamond dove (Geopelia cuneata)
- dovecot, dovecote
- Dove Creek
- dove-eyed
- dove gray, dove grey
- dove of peace
- dove plant (Peristeria elata)
- dove tree (Davidia involucrata)
- dovish
- eared dove (Zenaida auriculata)
- Fleet Street dove
- fruit dove, fruit-dove (Ptilinopus)
- Galapagos dove (Zenaida galapagoensis)
- ground dove (Claravinae spp., Phabini spp.)
- Inca dove
- laughing dove
- little brown dove
- moaning dove (Columbina passerina)
- mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)
- Nicobar dove
- Pacific dove (Zenaida meloda)
- palm dove
- peaceful dove
- Philippine cuckoo-dove
- quail dove, quail-dove
- rain dove (Zenaida macroura)
- release dove
- ring dove (Streptopelia risoria)
- ringed dove
- ringneck dove (Streptopelia risoria)
- rock dove (Columba livia)
- Samoan dove
- scaled dove
- sea dove
- Senegal dove
- Socorro dove (Zenaida graysoni)
- soiled dove
- stock dove (Columba oenas)
- sucking-dove
- tambourine dove (Turtur tympanistria)
- tobacco dove (Columbina passerina)
- tree-dove
- turtledove, turtle-dove, turtle dove
- West Peruvian dove (Zenaida meloda)
- white-winged dove (Zenaida asiatica)
- zebra dove (Geopelia striata)
- Zenaida dove (Zenaida spp, especially Zenaida aurita)
Descendants
- → Norwegian Bokmål: due (semantic loan)
Translations
bird of the family Columbidae — see also pigeon
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politics: person favouring conciliation
term of endearment
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Etymology 2
A modern dialectal formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive → drove and weave → wove.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dōv, IPA(key): /dəʊv/
- (US) enPR: dōv, IPA(key): /doʊv/
Audio (US), verb (file) - Rhymes: -əʊv
Verb
dove
- (chiefly Canada, US and England dialect) Strong simple past of dive
- 2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; →ISBN
- When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.
- 2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; →ISBN
- (nonstandard) past participle of dive
Usage notes
- See dive for dived vs. dove.
References
- “dove” listed as a North American and English dialectal past tense form of “dive, v.”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
dove m or f (plural doven)
- A deaf person.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
dove
- inflection of doof:
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
dove
Anagrams
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin doga, from Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éh₂. Compare Italian doga, Venetian dova, doa, French douve.
Noun
dove f (plural dovis)
Italian
Alternative forms
- dov' (acopic, before a vowel or 'h')
Etymology
From Latin dē ubi, or from a strengthening of the older form ove with a prothetic d-. Compare Piedmontese doa.
Pronunciation
Conjunction
dove
- where
- Lo troverai dove l'hai lasciato. ― You'll find it where you left it.
Derived terms
Related terms
Adverb
dove
- (interrogative) where, whereabouts
- Dove vai? ― Where are you going?
- Dove vivi? ― Whereabouts do you live?
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
dove
- Alternative form of douve
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Adjective
dove