laver

From Middle English laver, lavre, lever, levre, laber (“a kind of water plant”), from Old English læfer, leber (“a rush (plant)”), a borrowing from Latin laver (“water plant”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːvə/, /ˈleɪvə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪvɚ/, /ˈlɑvɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːvə(ɹ), -eɪvə(ɹ)
• Homophones: lava, larva (in non-rhotic accents)
• Hyphenation: lav‧er

laver (countable and uncountable, plural lavers)

1. A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.
   • 1847, Margaret Dods [pseudonym; Christian Isobel Johnstone], “Roasting”, in The Cook and Housewife’s Manual. […], 8th edition, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd; London; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., →OCLC, paragraph 19, pages 106–107:

     To roast a leg, haunch, or saddle of mutton. […] A modern refinement is to put laver in the dripping-pan, which, in basting, imparts a high gout; or a large saddle may be served over a pound and a half of laver, stewed in brown sauce with catsup and seasonings.

2. Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially:
   1. Porphyra vulgaris

• black laver (Porphyra dioica)
• green laver (Ulva lactuca, Monostroma grevillei)
• kelp laver (Porphyra drachii)
• laver slack (Porphyra umbilicalis)
• laver sloke (Porphyra umbilicalis)
• laverbread (Porphyra umbilicalis)
• lettuce laver (Ulva lactuca)
• northern pink laver (Porphyra amplissima)
• pale patch laver (Porphyra leucosticta)
• purple laver (Porphyra nereocystis, Porphyra umbilicalis; Ulva lactuca)
• red laver (Porphyra nereocystis, Porphyra suborbiculata, Porphyra perforata, Porphyra umbilicalis)
• tough laver (Porphyra umbilicalis)
• winter laver (Porphyra linearis)

• nori

From Middle English laver, lavour, from Old French lavor, lavur, laveor, laveour, laveoir, from Latin lavatorium. Doublet of lavatory.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪvə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪvɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)

laver (plural lavers)

1. One who laves: a washer.
2. Where one laves, a washroom, particularly a lavatorium, the washing area in a monastery.
3. That which laves, particularly a washbasin.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Infinit streames continually did well / Out of this fountaine, sweet and faire to see, / The which into an ample lauer fell […]

• (washbasin): See washbasin

• Ravel, arvel, larve, ravel, reval, velar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɑwˀɐ]

laver c or n (lichen)

1. indefinite plural of lav

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːvɐ/, [ˈlɛːwɐ], [ˈlɛːwɒ̽]

laver

1. present tense of lave

Inherited from Old French laver, from Latin lavāre, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”).

• IPA^(key): /la.ve/

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laver

1. to wash
2. (reflexive) to wash oneself

• “laver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• larve

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.u̯er/, [ˈɫ̪äu̯ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ver/, [ˈläːver]

laver f (genitive laveris); third declension

1. a water-plant, possibly water parsnip (Sium latifolium)[1]

Third-declension noun.

• → Proto-West Germanic: *laberu (see there for further descendants)

• “laver”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• laver in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

laver

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lavō

laver

1. Alternative form of lavour

• lavaïr (Guernsey)

From Old French laver, from Latin lavō, lavāre.

• Audio (Jersey)

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laver (gerund lav'thie)

1. (Jersey) to wash

laver m or n

1. indefinite plural of lav

From Latin lavāre, present active infinitive of lavō.

laver

1. (transitive) to wash
2. (reflexive, se laver) to get washed

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. This verb has a stressed present stem lev distinct from the unstressed stem lav. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• lavanderie

• French: laver
• Norman: laver (Jersey), lavaïr (Guernsey)

• nettoier