clava

See also: clavá and clavà

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “probably derived from Latin”)

Noun

clava (plural clavas)

1. Synonym of gracile tubercle
2. (entomology) The fused distal segments of the antenna of a chalcid wasp.

   Synonym: club

Anagrams

• Calva, calva, caval

Asturian

Verb

clava

1. inflection of clavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkla.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈkla.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkla.va]

Verb

clava

1. inflection of clavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin clāva (“club”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkla.va/
• Rhymes: -ava
• Hyphenation: clà‧va

Noun

clava f (plural clave)

1. club
2. (sports) Indian club

Anagrams

• calva, valca

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *klāwā, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat, break”). Cognate with Latin clādes, percellō, gladius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈklaː.u̯a/, [ˈkɫ̪äːu̯ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.va/, [ˈkläːvä]

Noun

clāva f (genitive clāvae); first declension

1. a club, cudgel

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	clāva	clāvae
genitive	clāvae	clāvārum
dative	clāvae	clāvīs
accusative	clāvam	clāvās
ablative	clāvā	clāvīs
vocative	clāva	clāvae

Related terms

• clāvula
• clavator

References

• “clava”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clava”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clava 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)
• clava in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “clava”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “clava”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin clāva (“club”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.vɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.vɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.va/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.vɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.vɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.bɐ/ [ˈkla.βɐ]

• Rhymes: -avɐ, (Northern Portugal) -abɐ
• Hyphenation: cla‧va

Noun

clava f (plural clavas)

1. club (weapon)

   Synonyms: porrete, cacete, maça

Spanish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin clāva (“club”).

Noun

clava f (plural clavas)

1. club (weapon)

   Synonyms: cachiporra, porra, maza

Etymology 2

Verb

clava

1. inflection of clavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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