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”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯al.u̯a/, [ˈu̯äɫ̪u̯ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈval.va/, [ˈvälvä]

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

• valvula
• valvularis
• valvulosus

Descendants

• → English: valva
• → French: valve
• → Italian: valva
• New Latin: valvula
  • → Italian: valvola
  • → Portuguese: válvula
  • → Sicilian: vàrbula
  • → Spanish: válvula
• → Middle English: valve
  • English: valve
    • → Cantonese: 嘩佬 / 哗佬 (waa1 lou2)
    • → Japanese: バルブ (barubu)
    • → Thai: วาล์ว (waao)
• → 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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

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

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

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈval.vɐ/ [ˈvaɫ.vɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈval.vɐ/ [ˈvaɫ.vɐ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbal.bɐ/ [ˈbaɫ.βɐ]

Noun

valva f (plural valvas)

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

   Synonym: válvula

Related terms

• válvula

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalba/ [ˈbal.β̞a]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -alba
• Syllabification: val‧va

Noun

valva f (plural valvas)

1. (anatomy) valve

Further reading

• “valva”, 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