bove

• 'bove

Probably an aphetic form of above. Alternatively, this word may continue Middle English bove, boven, from Old English bufan, from Proto-West Germanic *biobanā, from *bi (“by”) + *ufanā (“from above”). Compare West Frisian boppe, Dutch boven and Low German baven, boven.

• IPA^(key): /bʌv/

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bove

1. (now colloquial or dialectal) Above.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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.

• EBOV

• IPA^(key): /bɔvə/, [ˈb̥ɒːʊ]
• Homophone: borge

bove c

1. indefinite plural of bov

bove (plural boves)

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

From Latin bovem. Doublet of bue. Cognate with Sicilian voi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.ve/
• Rhymes: -ɔve
• Hyphenation: bò‧ve

bove m (plural bovi)

1. ox

   Synonym: bue

• bovino

• bevo

• bovīd (rare)

bove

1. ablative singular of bōs