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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.
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
láva
láva
Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlaːvɒ]
- Hyphenation: lá‧va
Noun
láva (plural lávák)
- lava (melted rock)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | láva | lávák |
| accusative | lávát | lávákat |
| dative | lávának | láváknak |
| instrumental | lávával | lávákkal |
| causal-final | láváért | lávákért |
| translative | lávává | lávákká |
| terminative | láváig | lávákig |
| essive-formal | lávaként | lávákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | lávában | lávákban |
| superessive | láván | lávákon |
| adessive | lávánál | láváknál |
| illative | lávába | lávákba |
| sublative | lávára | lávákra |
| allative | lávához | lávákhoz |
| elative | lávából | lávákból |
| delative | láváról | lávákról |
| ablative | lávától | láváktól |
| Possessive forms of láva | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | lávám | láváim |
| 2nd person sing. | lávád | láváid |
| 3rd person sing. | lávája | lávái |
| 1st person plural | lávánk | láváink |
| 2nd person plural | lávátok | láváitok |
| 3rd person plural | lávájuk | láváik |
Derived terms
Slovak
láva
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɫaːva/
Noun
láva f (genitive singular lávy, declension pattern of žena)
- lava (melted rock)
Declension
Declension of láva
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | láva | lávy |
| genitive | lávy | láv |
| dative | láve | lávam |
| accusative | lávu | lávy |
| locative | láve | lávach |
| instrumental | lávou | lávami |
References
- láva in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk