clave

See also: clavé

English

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kleɪv/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪv

Verb

clave

  1. (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.

Etymology 2

From Spanish clave, from Latin clāvis (“key”). Doublet of clavis and clef.

Pronunciation

Noun

clave (plural claves)

  1. singular of claves

Noun

clave (plural claves)

  1. (music) A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.
Translations

See also

Etymology 3

Clipping of autoclave.

Noun

clave (plural claves)

  1. Ellipsis of autoclave.

Verb

clave (third-person singular simple present claves, present participle claving, simple past and past participle claved)

  1. Ellipsis of autoclave.

Anagrams

Asturian

Verb

clave

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of clavar

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkla.ve/
  • Rhymes: -ave
  • Hyphenation: clà‧ve

Noun

clave

  1. plural of clava

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

clāve

  1. ablative singular of clāvis

Etymology 2

Noun

clāve

  1. vocative singular of clāvus

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w-
Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w-i-s
Proto-Italic *klāwis
Latin clāvemlbor.
Portuguese clave

    Learned borrowing from Latin clāvem.[1][2] Doublet of chave.

    Pronunciation

     

    Noun

    clave f (plural claves)

    1. (music) clef (symbol)
    2. juggling club

    Derived terms

    References

    1. ^ “clave”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
    2. ^ “clave”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

    Further reading

    Spanish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈklabe/ [ˈkla.β̞e]
    • Audio (Colombia):(file)
    • Rhymes: -abe
    • Syllabification: cla‧ve

    Etymology 1

    Borrowed from Latin clāvis (“key”). Compare the inherited doublet llave.

    Noun

    clave f (plural claves)

    1. (figurative) key (to a problem or puzzle)
      • 2019 April 2, Ricardo Baixeras, “'Mañana tendremos otros nombres' : las grietas del amor”, in El Periódico‎[1], archived from the original on 1 December 2020:
        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.
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    2. password
      Synonym: contraseña
      clave WiFi ― WiFi password
    3. code
    4. (music) clef
    5. (music) clave
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • → English: clave

    Adjective

    clave m or f (masculine and feminine plural clave or claves)

    1. key (important)
      Synonym: importante
    Derived terms

    Etymology 2

      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Verb

      clave

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

      Further reading

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