clavar

From clavu or from Late Latin clāvāre, from Latin clāvus.

clavar (first-person singular indicative present clavo, past participle claváu)

1. (transitive) to nail (employ a nail as a fastener)

• clavu

Inherited from Late Latin clāvāre (compare Occitan clavar, Spanish clavar, Portuguese cravar, French clouer, Italian chiavare), from Latin clāvus. Equivalent to, but not synchronically derivable from, clau (“[a] nail”) +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kləˈβa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kləˈva]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [klaˈvaɾ]

clavar (first-person singular present clavo, first-person singular preterite claví, past participle clavat)

1. (transitive) to nail
2. (transitive) to pin
3. (transitive) to attach, stick

   Synonym: fixar

• clau

• “clavar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “clavar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “clavar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

clau +‎ -ar. Clau reverts back to its Latin root clav, from clāvis (“key”). Alternatively (through Old Occitan [Term?]), from Late Latin clāvāre, from Latin clāvus.

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clavar

1. to lock
2. (figuratively) to lock; to close
3. to nail

From clavo or from Late Latin clāvāre, from Latin clāvus. Compare Portuguese cravar.

• IPA^(key): /klaˈbaɾ/ [klaˈβ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cla‧var

clavar (first-person singular present clavo, first-person singular preterite clavé, past participle clavado)

1. to nail, to pin, to stick

• “clavar”, 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