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Webster 1913 Edition


Lava

La′va

(lä′vȧ; 277)
,
Noun.
[It.
lava
lava, orig. in Naples, a torrent of rain overflowing the streets, fr. It. & L.
lavare
to wash. See
Lave
.]
The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth’s surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.
☞ Lavas are classed, according to their structure, as scoriaceous or cellular, glassy, stony, etc., and according to the material of which they consist, as doleritic, trachytic, etc.
Lava millstone
,
a hard and coarse basaltic millstone from the neighborhood of the Rhine.
Lava ware
,
a kind of cheap pottery made of iron slag cast into tiles, urns, table tops, etc., resembling lava in appearance.

Webster 1828 Edition


Lava

L'AVA

,
Noun.
[probably from flowing, and from the root of L. fluo, or lavo.]
1.
A mass or stream of melted minerals or stony matter which bursts or is thrown from the mouth or sides of a volcano, and is sometimes ejected in such quantities as to overwhelm cities. Catana, at the foot of Etna, has often been destroyed by it, and in 1783, a vast tract of land in Iceland was overspread by an eruption of lava from mount Hecla.
2.
The same matter when cool and hardened.

Definition 2024


Lava

Lava

See also: lava, láva, lavá, lavâ, låvå, and lava-

English

Proper noun

Lava

  1. (Hinduism) One of the twin children of the Lord Rāma and his wife Sita in the Ramayana.

German

Noun

Lava f (genitive Lava, plural Laven)

  1. lava

Derived terms

lava

lava

See also: Lava, láva, lavá, lavâ, låvå, and lava-

English

Noun

lava (countable and uncountable, plural lavas)

  1. The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides.
  2. (informal, proscribed) Magma.
  3. A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava.
    lava colour:    

Usage notes

Geologists make a distinction between magma (molten rock underground) and lava (molten rock on the surface).

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Catalan

Noun

lava f (plural laves)

  1. lava

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Italian lava.

Noun

lava

  1. lava

Declension

References

  • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8

Dutch

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: la‧va

Noun

lava c (uncountable)

  1. lava

Finnish

Noun

lava

  1. bed (platform of a truck or other vehicle that supports the load)
  2. platform (raised stage for speeches etc.)
  3. stage (in a theatre etc.)

Declension

Inflection of lava (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative lava lavat
genitive lavan lavojen
partitive lavaa lavoja
illative lavaan lavoihin
singular plural
nominative lava lavat
accusative nom. lava lavat
gen. lavan
genitive lavan lavojen
lavainrare
partitive lavaa lavoja
inessive lavassa lavoissa
elative lavasta lavoista
illative lavaan lavoihin
adessive lavalla lavoilla
ablative lavalta lavoilta
allative lavalle lavoille
essive lavana lavoina
translative lavaksi lavoiksi
instructive lavoin
abessive lavatta lavoitta
comitative lavoineen

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French

Verb

lava

  1. third-person singular past historic of laver

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Galician

Noun

lava f (plural lavas)

  1. lava

Italian

Verb

lava

  1. third-person singular present indicative of lavare
  2. second-person singular imperative of lavare

Noun

lava f (plural lave)

  1. lava

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Latin

Verb

lavā

  1. first-person singular present active imperative of lavō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian (Neapolitan dialect) lava

Noun

lava m (definite singular lavaen, indefinite plural lavaer, definite plural lavaene)

  1. (geology) lava

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian (Neapolitan dialect) lava

Noun

lava m (definite singular lavaen, indefinite plural lavaer, definite plural lavaene)

  1. (geology) lava

References


Portuguese

lava

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈla.va/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈla.vɐ/
  • Hyphenation: la‧va
  • Rhymes: -avɐ

Etymology 1

From Italian (Neapolitan or Calabrese dialect), lava (a torrent of rain which washed the streets), from Latin lavō (I wash), from Proto-Indo-European *lowh₃-

Noun

lava f (plural lavas)

  1. lava (melted rock)
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Etymology 2

Verb

lava

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of lavar
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of lavar

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

láva f (Cyrillic spelling ла́ва)

  1. (geology) lava

Declension


Spanish

Etymology

From Italian (Neapolitan dialect) lava (lava), from lavare (to wash).

Noun

lava f (plural lavas)

  1. lava
  2. washing

Verb

lava

  1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of lavar.

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish lava.

Noun

lava

  1. floor
  2. platform

Inflection

Inflection of lava
nominative sing. lava
genitive sing. lavan
partitive sing. lavad
partitive plur. lavoid
singular plural
nominative lava lavad
accusative lavan lavad
genitive lavan lavoiden
partitive lavad lavoid
essive-instructive lavan lavoin
translative lavaks lavoikš
inessive lavas lavoiš
elative lavaspäi lavoišpäi
illative ? lavoihe
adessive laval lavoil
ablative lavalpäi lavoilpäi
allative lavale lavoile
abessive lavata lavoita
comitative lavanke lavoidenke
prolative lavadme lavoidme
approximative I lavanno lavoidenno
approximative II lavannoks lavoidennoks
egressive lavannopäi lavoidennopäi
terminative I ? lavoihesai
terminative II lavalesai lavoilesai
terminative III lavassai
additive I ? lavoihepäi
additive II lavalepäi lavoilepäi

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), площадка, пол, помост”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika