trave

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See also: Trave and trávě

English

Etymology

From Middle English trave, from Middle French trave, from Latin trabem, accusative of trabs (“beam, thing made using beams”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: trāv, IPA(key): /tɹeɪv/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪv

Noun

trave (plural traves)

  2. (architecture) A crossbeam.
  4. (architecture) A section formed by crossbeams.
  6. A wooden frame to confine unruly horses while they are shod.

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Italian

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Etymology

From Latin trabem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtra.ve/
  • Rhymes: -ave
  • Hyphenation: trà‧ve

Noun

trave f (plural travi)

  1. (architecture) beam, girder, rafter
  2. (gymnastics) balance beam
    Synonym: trave di equilibrio

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French trave, from Latin trabem, from Proto-Indo-European *treb-.

Pronunciation

Noun

trave (plural traves) (rare)

  1. A beam or pole.
  2. A wooden cage for containing horses that are being shod.

Descendants

  • English: trave

References

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin trabem, accusative singular of trabs.

Noun

trave f (plural traves)

  1. crossbeam

Descendants

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (trave)

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin trabem, accusative of trabs (“beam”).

Pronunciation

Noun

trave f

  1. beam
    • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 266 (facsimile):
      como ſṫa M de caſtro xerez guardou agente que sija na ygreia oyndo ſermon dũa traue que caeu de çima da ygreia ſobreles.
      How holy Mary of Castrojeriz saved the people, who were in the church listening to the sermon, from a beam which fell from above the church on them.

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese trave, from Latin trabem (“beam”).

Pronunciation

 
 

Noun

trave f (plural traves)

  1. beam
    Synonym: viga
  2. (architecture) trave (joist)
    Synonym: barrote
  3. (sports) goalpost
  4. (sports) crossbar
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Further reading

  • “trave” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Etymology 2

Verb

trave

  1. inflection of travar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

trave (Cyrillic spelling траве)

  1. inflection of trava:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish þravi. Cognate of English thrave (“sheaf”).

Noun

trave c

  1. a neat stack
    en trave med ved/böcker
    a stack of wood/books

Declension

Declension of trave 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative trave traven travar travarna
Genitive traves travens travars travarnas

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References

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