nave - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

The nave of a church in Ellmau, Austria

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.

the middle or body of a church

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

Wheel showing nave at centre

nave (plural naves)

  1. A hub of a wheel.
  2. (obsolete) The navel.

From Latin nāvis, nāvem.

nave f (plural naves)

  1. ship
  2. industrial building
    Neses naves del polígunu fain planches de fierro vieyo qu'atopen perahi
    In those industrial buildings they make plates from old iron that they find around.

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].

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nave, from Latin nāvis, nāvem.

nave f (plural naves)

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

nave (plural naves)

  1. ship

From Latin nāvem, from Proto-Italic *naus ~ *nāwis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us, derived from the root *(s)neh₂- (“to swim, float”).

nave f (plural navi)

  1. ship

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

nave f (Hebrew spelling נאב׳י)[1]

  1. (nautical) ship (a water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat)
    Synonyms: barko, navío, vapor

    • 19th century, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, translated by Isaac Jerusalmi, edited by Aron Rodrigue, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi‎[1], Stanford University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 276:
      I ala onze [6 AM], ala turka, vinyeron en grande akompanyamyento delos askyeres turkos adelantre i detras, kompanyas de soldados de kada nasyon ke fueron dezbarkados delas naves, djunto todos los viche-amirales i komandantes, i ofisyeres de kada nave ke se topo en muestro porto.
      And at eleven [6 A.M.], a great escort of Turkish soldiers came ahead of and behind the Turk; companies of soldiers from every nation disembarked from the ships, together with all the vice-admirals, commanders, and officers from every ship found in our port.

  2. ^ “nave”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasury of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

nāve

  1. ablative singular of nāvis (“ship”)

nāve

  1. vocative masculine singular of nāvus (“active; busy; diligent”)

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

nave (plural naves)

  1. nave (hub of a wheel)

nave

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

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

nave f (plural naves)

  1. ship
    Synonyms: barco, navio
  2. (architecture) nave, aisle
  3. (Brazil, slang) car
  4. (colloquial, usually in science fiction) ellipsis of nave espacial (“spaceship”)

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

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

nave f (plural naves)

  1. ship, vessel (with a concave hull)
    Synonyms: bajel, barco, buque, navío, nao
  2. ellipsis of nave espacial (“craft, spaceship, spacecraft”) or nave estelar (“starship”)
  3. (architecture, religion) nave, aisle