dove

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).

• IPA^(key): /dʌv/
• Rhymes: -ʌv

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dove (countable and uncountable, plural doves)

1. (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.
2. (countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.

   Synonym: peace dove

   Antonym: hawk

3. (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.

4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
5. (slang, countable) Short for love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).

• (pigeon): columbid, columbiform, culver, pigeon

• → Norwegian Bokmål: due (semantic loan)

A modern dialectal formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive → drove and weave → wove.

• dived

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dōv, IPA^(key): /dəʊv/
• (US) enPR: dōv, IPA^(key): /doʊv/

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• Rhymes: -əʊv

dove

1. (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.

2. (nonstandard) past participle of dive

• See dive for dived vs. dove.

• “dove” listed as a North American and English dialectal past tense form of “dive, v.”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

• devo

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoː.və/

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• Hyphenation: do‧ve

From doof +‎ -e.

dove m or f (plural doven)

1. A deaf person.

• doventaal
• doventolk

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dove

1. inflection of doof:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dove

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of doven

• voed

From Latin doga, from Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éh₂. Compare Italian doga, Venetian dova, doa, French douve.

dove f (plural dovis)

1. stave

• dov' (acopic, before a vowel or 'h')

From Latin dē ubi, or from a strengthening of the older form ove with a prothetic d-. Compare Piedmontese doa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.ve/^°, (traditional) /ˈdo.ve/^*

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• Rhymes: -ove
• Hyphenation: dó‧ve

dove

1. where

   Lo troverai dove l'hai lasciato. ― You'll find it where you left it.

• laddove

• ove

dove

1. (interrogative) where, whereabouts

   Dove vai? ― Where are you going?

   Dove vivi? ― Whereabouts do you live?

• devo, vedo

dove

1. Alternative form of douve

• dovent

dove

1. neuter singular of doven