bove

See also: Bove and bovë

English

Alternative forms
  • 'bove

Etymology

From Old English bufan, from Proto-Germanic *bi (“by”) + *ufanē (“from above”). Cognate with Dutch boven. In later use generally intended or considered as an abbreviation of above.

Preposition

bove

  1. Above.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
      Her Sea-god syre she dearely did perswade, / T'endow her sonne with threasure and rich store, / Boue all the sonnes, that were of earthly wombes ybore.

Danish

Noun

bove c

  1. plural indefinite of bov

Interlingua

Noun

bove (plural boves)

  1. ox (castrated male bovine, any male bovine)

Interlingue

Noun

bove (plural boves)

  1. bull

Italian

Etymology

From Latin bovem, accusative of bos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Doublet of bue.

Noun

bove m (plural bovi)

  1. ox

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Latin

Noun

bove

  1. ablative singular of bōs
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