dove
see also: Dove
Etymology 1
Dove
Etymology
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see also: Dove
Etymology 1
From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe, from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ.
Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, Western Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, nds-de Duuv, nds-nl duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב, Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉.
Pronunciation- IPA: /dʌv/
dove
- (countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
- (countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
- Synonyms: peace dove
- Antonyms: hawk
- (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
- A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
- (slang, countable) Short for love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).
- French: colombe, pigeon
- German: Taube
- Italian: colomba, piccione
- Portuguese: pombo, pomba
- Russian: го́лубь
- Spanish: paloma, pichón (young), pichona (young)
- German: Täubchen
A modern dialectal formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive → drove and weave → wove.
Pronunciation Verb- (chiefly, North America and English dialect) Strong simple past of dive
- 2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; ISBN 9780307394361
- When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.
- 2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; ISBN 9780307394361
- (non-standard) past participle of dive
Dove
Etymology
- As an English surname, from the noun dove.
- As a Scottish surname, calque of Scottish Gaelic (mac) Calmáin (“(son of the) dove”). Compare Coleman.
- Also as a Scottish surname, variant of Duff.
- As a north German surname, from the Low German - adjective doof; see deaf.
- A river in England.
- An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri.
- A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Caelum and Puppis.
- Surname.
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