pave

From Old French paver (“to pave, to cover”), from Vulgar Latin *pavāre (“to beat down, to smash”), from Latin pavīre, present active infinitive of paviō (“I beat, strike, ram, tread down”).

• enPR: pāv, IPA^(key): /peɪv/

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• Rhymes: -eɪv

pave (third-person singular simple present paves, present participle paving, simple past and past participle paved)

1. (British) To cover something with paving slabs.
2. (Canada, US) To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel.
   • 1970, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Big Yellow Taxi”, in Ladies of the Canyon:

     They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot.

3. (transitive, figurative) To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth.
   • 2011, Rice Baker-Yeboah, The Animal Pathways 1-2, page 110:

     After two weeks Miguel began to circulate freely about the city in his truck, albeit with the long, chrome-plated pistol cocked and ready on his lap. It wouldn't be for three more years that Gonzo would tell Miguel about the secret leverage that paved his path to freedom.

• EVAP, vape

From Old Danish pauæ (Old Norse páfi), from Old Saxon pavos (Middle Low German pawes, paves), from Old French papes, from Latin pāpa (“father”).

• IPA^(key): /paːvə/, [ˈpʰæːwə]
• Rhymes: -aːvə

pave c (singular definite paven, plural indefinite paver)

1. pope

• pavedømme
• pavehof
• pavelig
• pavestol
• pavevalg

• “pave” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “pave” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

• IPA^(key): /pav/

pave

1. inflection of paver:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

pavē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of paveō

pave m (definite singular paven, indefinite plural paver, definite plural pavene)

1. pope

• juksepave

• pavedømme
• pavelig

pave m (definite singular paven, indefinite plural pavar, definite plural pavane)

1. pope

• juksepave
• paveleg

• pavedøme, pavedømme