trave

From Middle English trave, from Middle French trave, from Latin trabem, accusative of trabs (“beam, thing made using beams”).

• enPR: trāv, IPA^(key): /tɹeɪv/

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• Rhymes: -eɪv

trave (plural traves)

1. (architecture) A crossbeam.
2. (architecture) A section formed by crossbeams.
3. A wooden frame to confine unruly horses while they are shod.

• architrave

• avert, tarve

From Latin trabem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtra.ve/
• Rhymes: -ave
• Hyphenation: trà‧ve

trave f (plural travi)

1. (architecture) beam, girder, rafter
2. (gymnastics) balance beam

   Synonym: trave di equilibrio

• architrave
• travato
• travatura

• verta, vertà

• trawe

Borrowed from Middle French trave, from Latin trabem, from Proto-Indo-European *treb-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtraːv(ə)/

trave (plural traves) (rare)

1. A beam or pole.
2. A wooden cage for containing horses that are being shod.

• English: trave

• “trā̆ve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Latin trabem, accusative singular of trabs.

trave f (plural traves)

1. crossbeam

• → Middle English: trave, trawe
  • English: trave

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (trave)

From Latin trabem, accusative of trabs (“beam”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾa.βe/

trave f

1. beam
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 266 (facsimile):

     como ſṫa M de caſtro xerez guardou agente que sija na ygreia oyndo ſermon dũa traue que caeu de çima da ygreia ſobreles.

     How holy Mary of Castrojeriz saved the people, who were in the church listening to the sermon, from a beam which fell from above the church on them.

• Galician: trabe
• Portuguese: trave

From Old Galician-Portuguese trave, from Latin trabem (“beam”).

• Rhymes: -avi, -avɨ
• Hyphenation: tra‧ve

trave f (plural traves)

1. beam

   Synonym: viga

2. (architecture) trave (joist)

   Synonym: barrote

3. (sports) goalpost
4. (sports) crossbar

• trave olímpica
• travar, entravar

• (goalpost): travessão

• “trave” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

trave

1. inflection of travar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

trave (Cyrillic spelling траве)

1. inflection of trava:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Inherited from Old Swedish þravi. Cognate of English thrave (“sheaf”).

trave c

1. a neat stack

   en trave med ved/böcker

   a stack of wood/books

• trava
• vedtrave

• stapel (“tall stack”)

• trave in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• trave in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• trave in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• trave in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)