nave

• enPR: nāv, IPA^(key): /neɪv/
• Rhymes: -eɪv
• Homophone: knave

Ultimately from Latin nāvis, via a Romance source.

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.

• double-nave

From Middle English nave, from Old English nafu, from Proto-Germanic *nabō (compare Dutch naaf, German Nabe, Swedish nav), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nebʰ- (“navel”) (compare Latin umbō (“shield boss”), Latvian naba, Sanskrit नाभ (nābha)).

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

• navel

• Evan, Neva, Vena, aven, neva, vane

From Latin nāvis, nāvem.

nave f (plural naves)

1. ship

nave

1. water
   • Martin Pavior-Smith, Exploring self-concept and narrator characterisation in Aulua (nave):

     Nave ibtavov ben.

     The water went [=was swept] out [of the house].

• Darrell T. Tryon, New Hebrides languages: an internal classification (1976) (na-βʷe); ABVD 1 (na-fe), 2 (na-ve), 3 (na-ve)

From Old Portuguese, from Latin nāvis, nāvem.

nave f (plural naves)

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

• navegar

nave (plural naves)

1. ship

From Latin nāvem, accusative of nāvis, from Proto-Italic *naus ~ *nāwis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us, derived from the root *(s)neh₂- (“to swim, float”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.ve/, [ˈn̺äːve̞]

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• Hyphenation: nà‧ve

nave f (plural navi)

1. ship

• nave costiera
• nave scuola
• navicella

• nausea
• nautica
• navale
• navigare
• naviglio

• vane, vena

nāve

1. ablative singular of navis

• 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
• nave in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈnave/

nave

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

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

• Rhymes: -avi

nave f (plural naves)

1. ship

   Synonyms: barco, navio

2. (architecture) nave, aisle

• astronave

• naval
• navegar
• navio

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈnabe/, [ˈnaβe]

nave f (plural naves)

1. ship
2. (architecture) nave, aisle

• “nave” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.