valva

See also: válva, välva, vâlvă, and valvă

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin valva (“double door, valve”). Doublet of valve.

Noun

valva (plural valvae)

  1. A paired copulatory organ of males in some species of insects that helps the male clasp the female.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈval.va/
  • Rhymes: -alva
  • Hyphenation: vàl‧va

Noun

valva f (plural valve)

  1. (anatomy, zoology) valve, half shell

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wolVwā- (“leaf of a door; folding”), from Proto-Indo-European *wol-ew-o- (“turning”), from *welH- (“to turn, wind, round”). Cognate with Latin volvō (“I roll”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

valva f (genitive valvae); first declension

  1. double or folding door (in plural)
  2. one leaf of such doors

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative valva valvae
genitive valvae valvārum
dative valvae valvīs
accusative valvam valvās
ablative valvā valvīs
vocative valva valvae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: valva
  • → French: valve
  • → Italian: valva
  • New Latin: valvula
  • → Middle English: valve
  • → Spanish: valva

References

  • “valva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • valva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to barricade a door (a city-gate): valvas (portam) obstruere
  • “valva”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 653

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvaw.vɐ/ [ˈvaʊ̯.vɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvaw.va/ [ˈvaʊ̯.va]
 

Noun

valva f (plural valvas)

  1. (anatomy) valve (membrane which permits passage in one direction)
    Synonym: válvula

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbalba/ [ˈbal.β̞a]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -alba
  • Syllabification: val‧va

Noun

valva f (plural valvas)

  1. (anatomy) valve

Further reading

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