English

Noun

nave ‎(plural naves)

1. (architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English nafu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō (compare Dutch naaf, German Nabe), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nobh ‎(“navel”) (compare Latin umbō ‎(“shield boss”), Latvian naba, Sanskrit नाभ ‎(nābha)).

Noun

nave ‎(plural naves)

1. A hub of a wheel.
   • --William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2

     'Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods,

     In general synod take away her power;

     Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,

     And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven...

2. (obsolete) The navel.
   • William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scene 1:

     Till he faced the slave;/Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,/Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,/And fix'd his head upon our battlements

Related terms

• navel

Translations

Anagrams

• aven
• Evan
• Neva
• vane

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin nāvis.

Noun

nave f ‎(plural naves)

1. ship

Galician

Etymology

From Latin nāvis.

Noun

nave f ‎(plural naves)

1. ship (watercraft or airship)
2. (architecture) nave

Italian

Etymology

From Latin nāvis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.

Pronunciation

Noun

nave f ‎(plural navi)

1. ship

Related terms

• nausea
• nautica
• navale
• nave costiera
• nave scuola
• navicella
• navigare
• naviglio

Anagrams

• vane
• vena

Latin

Adjective

nāve

1. vocative masculine singular of nāvus

References

• nave in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nave in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “nave”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Northern Sami

Verb

nave

1. inflection of navvit:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin nāvis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -avi

Noun

nave f (plural naves)

1. ship
2. (architecture) nave, aisle

See also

• barco m
• navio m

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin nāvis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.

Noun

nave f ‎(plural naves)

1. ship
2. (architecture) nave, aisle

See also

• barca f
• barco m
• lancha f