clave
See also: clavé
English
Etymology 1
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kleɪv/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪv
Verb
clave
- (archaic) simple past and past participle of cleave
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 22:3:
- And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 1:14:
- And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
- 1868, Thomas Malory, chapter 11, in Le Morte D'Arthur:
- Sir Launcelot put his shield afore him, and put the stroke away of the one giant, and with his sword he clave his head asunder.
- 1917, H. P. Lovecraft, The Tomb:
- Suddenly a peal of thunder, resonant even above the din of the swinish revelry, clave the very roof and laid a hush of feat upon the boisterous company.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklɑːveɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɑːveɪ
See also
- Clave (rhythm) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
Asturian
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkla.ve/
- Rhymes: -ave
- Hyphenation: clà‧ve
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈklaː.u̯e/, [ˈkɫ̪äːu̯ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkla.ve/, [ˈkläːve]
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkla.vi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkla.ve/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkla.vɨ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkla.bɨ/ [ˈkla.βɨ]
- Rhymes: -avi, -avɨ
- Hyphenation: cla‧ve
References
- “clave” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “clave” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklabe/ [ˈkla.β̞e]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -abe
- Syllabification: cla‧ve
Noun
clave f (plural claves)
- (figurative) key (to a problem or puzzle)
- 2019 April 2, Ricardo Baixeras, “'Mañana tendremos otros nombres' : las grietas del amor”, in El Periódico:
- Un texto enormemente sugerente sobre los tiempos actuales y venideros, sobre lo que nos configura, sobre los nuevos roles de la masculinidad y la feminidad y sobre la velocidad como clave de lectura de las relaciones, una velocidad que como quería Ralph Waldo Emerson, cuando uno patina sobre hielo fino, es la salvación.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- password
- Synonym: contraseña
- clave WiFi ― WiFi password
- code
- (music) clef
- (music) clave
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → English: clave
Adjective
clave m or f (masculine and feminine plural clave or claves)
- key (important)
- Synonym: importante
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
clave
- inflection of clavar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “clave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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