cravo

• clavo

From Old Galician-Portuguese cravo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin clāvus (“nail”) (maybe a semi-learned word, since it experienced an irregular phonetic evolution; compare also Spanish clavo), itself from Proto-Italic *klāwos, from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u-. Cognate with Portuguese cravo and Spanish clavo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾaβo̝/

cravo m (plural cravos)

1. nail (spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials)

   Synonyms: prego, punta

2. (cooking) unexpanded buds of the clove tree, used as spice

• cravear

• caravel
• craveiro

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

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin clavus.

cravo m (plural cravos)

1. nail
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 151:

     talen aa huña de fora ataa a danadura do crauo que lixo nen podreen nenhũa non posa ficar na chaga por nenhũa gisa

     they shall cut the hoof until the nail injury, so that no dirt or rottenness remain in the wound under no circumstance

   • 1418, Ángel Rodríguez González, editor, Libro do Concello de Santiago:

     destes por duas palmelas et dous golfoos et cravos para o gindastes dose moravedis

     you gave for two hinges and for nails for the windlass 12 coins

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cravo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cravo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “crauo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu
• Hyphenation: cra‧vo

From Old Galician-Portuguese cravo, from Latin clāvus (“nail”) (with an irregular phonetic evolution; compare Spanish clavo.

cravo m (plural cravos)

1. (botany) clove (a tree, Syzygium aromaticum, syn. Eugenia aromatica)
2. (cooking) unexpanded buds of the clove tree, used as spice

   Synonyms: cravo-da-índia, cravinho, girofle

3. (dermatology) blackhead, comedo

   Synonyms: comedão, ponto negro

4. (dermatology) clavus; corn (callous growth on the foot)
5. horseshoe nail
6. a type of nail used to crucify people
7. (botany) carnation (a flower, Dianthus caryophyllus)

   Revolução dos Cravos ― Carnation Revolution

From French clavier (“keyboard”), from Latin clāvis (“key”).

cravo m (plural cravos)

1. (music) harpsichord (keyboard instrument which produces sound by plucking the strings)

• cravista

cravo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cravar

• “cravo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “cravo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025