English

Proper noun

Trave

1. A river in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany.

Anagrams

• avert

English

Noun

trave ‎(plural traves)

1. (architecture) A crossbeam.
2. (architecture) A section formed by crossbeams.

Related terms

• architrave

Anagrams

• avert

Italian

Etymology

From Latin trabem, accusative singular of trabs.

Noun

trave f ‎(plural travi)

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

Synonyms

• (balance beam): trave di equilibrio

Related terms

• architrave
• travatura

Anagrams

• verta

Middle English

Noun

trave

1. a wooden cage used to contain horses being shod

Middle French

Etymology

Latin trabem, accusative singular of trabs.

Noun

trave f (plural traves)

1. crossbeam

Descendants

• English: trave (borrowed)

References

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

Old Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾa.βe/

Noun

trave f

1. beam
   • 13th century, attributed to 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.

Descendants

• Portuguese: trave

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese trave, from Latin trabem, accusative of trabs ‎(“beam”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾa.vi/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾa.ve/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾa.vɨ/
• Hyphenation: tra‧ve
• Rhymes: -avi

Noun

trave f (plural traves)

1. beam
2. (architecture) trave (joist)
3. (sports) goalpost

Synonyms

• (beam): viga
• (trave): barrote

Derived terms

• trave olímpica
• travar, entravar

Related terms

• (goalpost): travessão