laver

From Middle English laver, lavre, lever, levre, laber (“a kind of water plant”), from Old English læfer, leber (“a rush (plant)”), a borrowing from Latin laver (“water plant”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːvə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑvɚ/, /ˈleɪvɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːvə(ɹ), -eɪvə(ɹ)
• Homophones: lava, larva (in non-rhotic accents)
• Hyphenation: lav‧er

laver (countable and uncountable, plural lavers)

1. A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.
2. Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially:
   1. Porphyra vulgaris

• black laver (Porphyra dioica)
• green laver (Ulva lactuca, Monostroma grevillei)
• kelp laver (Porphyra drachii)
• laver slack (Porphyra umbilicalis)
• laver sloke (Porphyra umbilicalis)
• laverbread (Porphyra umbilicalis)
• lettuce laver (Ulva lactuca)
• northern pink laver (Porphyra amplissima)
• pale patch laver (Porphyra leucosticta)
• purple laver (Porphyra nereocystis, Porphyra umbilicalis; Ulva lactuca)
• red laver (Porphyra nereocystis, Porphyra suborbiculata, Porphyra perforata, Porphyra umbilicalis)
• tough laver (Porphyra umbilicalis)
• winter laver (Porphyra linearis)

• nori

From Middle English laver, lavour, from Old French lavor, lavur, laveor, laveour, laveoir, from Latin lavatorium. Compare lavatory.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪvə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪvɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)

laver (plural lavers)

1. One who laves: a washer.
2. Where one laves, a washroom, particularly a lavatorium, the washing area in a monastery.
3. That which laves, particularly a washbasin.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII:

     Infinit streames continually did well / Out of this fountaine, sweet and faire to see, / The which into an ample lauer fell […]

• (washbasin): See washbasin

• arvel, larve, ravel, reval, velar

laver c or n

1. plural indefinite of lav

laver

1. present of lave

From Old French laver, from Latin lavāre, present active infinitive of lavō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”).

• IPA^(key): /la.ve/

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laver

1. to wash
2. (reflexive) to wash oneself

• entrelaver

• “laver” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• larve

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.wer/, [ˈɫa.wɛr]

laver f (genitive laveris); third declension

1. a water-plant, possibly water parsnip (Sium latifolium)[1]

Third declension.

• English: laver

• laver in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• laver in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

laver

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lavō

laver

1. Alternative form of lavour

• lavaïr (Guernsey)

From Old French laver, from Latin lavō, lavāre.

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laver (gerund lav'thie)

1. (Jersey) to wash

laver m or n

1. indefinite plural of lav

From Latin lavāre, present active infinitive of lavō.

laver

1. (transitive) to wash
2. (reflexive, se laver) to get washed

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. This verb has a stressed present stem lev distinct from the unstressed stem lav. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• lavanderie

• French: laver
• Norman: laver (Jersey), lavaïr (Guernsey)

• nettoier