ave

ave

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Avestan.

From Latin ave.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːveɪ/, /ˈæveɪ/, /ˈeɪvi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːveɪ, -æveɪ, -eɪvi

ave (plural aves)

1. An Ave Maria.
   • 1913, “Danny Boy”, Frederic Weatherly (lyrics):

     Ye’ll come and find the place where I am lying
     And kneel and say an ave there for me.

2. A reverential salutation.

ave

1. A reverential salutation.

Abbreviation.

• ave.

• IPA^(key): /æv/

ave (plural aves)

1. Abbreviation of avenue.
   • 2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 267:

     Eleven blocks up the ave from his parents but a different city.

2. Abbreviation of average.

• Eva, EVA, AEV, Vea, eva, eva', EAV, VAE, vae

From Old Norse agi (“fear, discipline”).

ave c

1. discipline, keeping in check

   Du skal holde forureningen i ave.

   You must keep the pollution in check.

From Latin āve.

ave n (singular definite avet, plural indefinite ave)

1. Ave Maria

From Old Norse aga (“frighten, scare”).

ave (imperative av, infinitive at ave, present tense aver, past tense avede, perfect tense har avet)

1. to control; govern.
2. (dated, puristic) to discipline; punish.

From avo +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /ˈave/
• Rhymes: -ave
• Hyphenation: a‧ve

ave

1. grandfatherly (in the manner or way of a grandfather)

From Latin ava.

ave f (plural avis)

1. grandmother

• none

• basave
• von

From Old Galician-Portuguese ave, from Latin avis, avem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis.

• IPA^(key): [ˈaβɪ]

ave f (plural aves)

1. bird

   Synonym: (smaller birds) paxaro

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ave”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ave”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ave”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ave”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ave”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin avis.

ave (plural aves)

1. bird

From Latin ave.

ave

1. hail

From Latin ave.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ve/
• Rhymes: -ave
• Hyphenation: à‧ve

ave

1. hail

ave f

1. plural of ava

• -eva, Eva

• avi (Sotavento)

From Portuguese ave.

ave

1. (Barlavento) bird

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
• Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

Borrowed with an unspelled /h/ from Punic [script needed] (ḥawe, “live!”, 2sg. imp.), cognate to Hebrew חוה (“Chava, the biblical Eve”), and as avō from Punic [script needed] (ḥawū, 2pl. imp.), from Semitic root ḥ-w-y (live). The form might have been contaminated by Etymology 2, especially as the latter one's long vowel also ended up short via iambic shortening; this would explain the reluctance to spell the aspirate, as well as its interpretation as a verb form. Attested since Plautus.

• have, avo

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈha.wɛ]
• (Literary affectation) (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.weː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.ve]
• Note: around the 1st c. a.D., the current pronunciation remained the etymological IPA^(key): /ha.vĕ/, with the long-vowel unaspirated form possible as a literary affectation, or as a poetic license.^[1]

avē̆

1. hail, hello, farewell, greetings! (a formal expression of greeting)

   Synonym: (h)avētō

   Aue Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum.

   Avē̆ atque valē!

   Hail and farewell! (esp. before a long departure and as a last good-bye to the dead).

   Avē̆ imperātor, moritūrī tē salūtant!

   Hail, commander, the ones going to their deaths salute you!

• Outside of grammarians, the plural (h)avēte is attested only once in Apuleius, who is known for affecting archaisms. This suggests that this greeting didn't usually inflect for number, reflecting its originally being an interjection and not a verbal form; nevertheless, it was eventually widely interpreted as the latter.
• The other verbal forms cited by grammarians are the future imperative avētō tū, ille (“greetings to you, him”) etc., and the infinitive in the circumlocution avēre tē volō (after the same use with valēre and the very rare salvēre).

• (h)avētō
• Ave Marīa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• have

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.weː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.ve]

avē

1. second-person singular present imperative of aveō

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ave m

1. vocative singular of avus

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ave f

1. ablative singular of avis

• “avē, havē” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

• ave in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "ave", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈave/

ave

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

From Latin ave (“hail!”).

ave n (definite singular avet, indefinite plural aver, definite plural ava or avene)

1. An Ave Maria

• “ave” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• Eva, eva, vea

From Latin ave (“hail!”).

ave n (definite singular avet, indefinite plural ave, definite plural ava)

1. An Ave Maria

• “ave” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Eva, eva, vea

From Latin avis (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis (“bird”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.βe/

ave f (plural aves)

1. bird
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 124 (facsimile):

     aue nen beſta dele non comiu per ren.

     Neither bird nor beast would eat him for anything.

• Galician: ave
• Portuguese: ave

From Latin avē (“hail”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.βe/, /a.ˈβɛ/

ave f (plural aves)

1. hail (introduces a formal greeting)
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de Toledo, cantiga 60 (facsimile):

     Entre aue eua gran departimenta.

     (Entre Av'e Eva gran departiment'a)

     Between ave and Eve there is a great difference.

• Galician: ave
• Portuguese: ave

Unadapted borrowing from Latin avē̆.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.vɛ/
• Rhymes: -avɛ
• Syllabification: a‧ve

ave

1. (literary) ave (reverential salutation)

• ave in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Galician-Portuguese ave (“bird”), from Latin avis (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis (“bird”).

• Homophone: Ave
• Rhymes: -avi, -avɨ
• Hyphenation: a‧ve

ave f (plural aves)

1. bird

   Synonym: pássaro

   Todas as aves têm asas.

   All birds have wings.

• Kabuverdianu: avi

From Old Galician-Portuguese ave, from Latin avē (“hail”).

• Hyphenation: a‧ve

ave!

1. hail (introduces a formal greeting)

   Synonym: salve

   Ave César!

   Hail Caesar!

2. clipping of ave Maria

• ave Maria
• afe (from 'ave Maria!' short form)

Borrowed from Latin ave.

ave

1. ave (salutation)

• ave in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈabe/, [ˈäː.β̞ɛ]

ave f (plural aves)

1. (Nuorese) alternative form of ae

   Synonyms: achedda, puzone

• IPA^(key): /ˈabe/ [ˈa.β̞e]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -abe
• Syllabification: a‧ve

Inherited from Old Spanish ave, from Latin avem, from Proto-Italic *awis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis.

ave f (plural aves)

1. bird

   Synonym: (especially small birds) pájaro

2. (Chile) fowl, poultry

• Before feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like ave, the singular definite article takes the form of el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el ave. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al ave, del ave.

This also applies to the indefinite article, which takes the form of un, which is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una also occurs): un ave or una ave. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).

However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) are used: la mejor ave, una buena ave.

• In these cases, el and un are not masculine but feminine, deriving from Latin illa and una, respectively, even though they are identical in form to the corresponding masculine singular articles. Thus, they are allomorphs of the feminine singular articles la and una.
• The use of these allomorphs does not change the gender agreement of the adjectives modifying the feminine noun: el ave única, un(a) ave buena.
• In the plural, the usual feminine plural articles and determiners (las, unas, etc.) are always used.

• Ave is also the scientific term, while pájaro is used more in common speech for the smaller birds.

• See also Category:es:Birds.

Inherited from Old Spanish ave, from Latin avē (“hello, hail”).

ave

1. (used when coming into a house) hello, hail

From the acronym AVE (Alta Velocidad Española), meaning high-speed train (written mostly all caps).

ave f (plural aves)

1. (Spain) high-speed train

   Cogeremos el ave el día 23 por la tarde.

   We will take the train on the 23rd in the afternoon.

• “ave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• avet (when not preceding a verb)

ave

1. First-person exclusive plural pronoun: they (many) and I, them (many) and me

ave

1. plural of ava