# trave
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English trave, from Middle French trave, from Latin trabem, accusative of trabs (“beam, thing made using beams”).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: trāv, IPA: /tɹeɪv/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪv

### Noun

trave (plural traves)
* (architecture) A crossbeam.
* (architecture) A section formed by crossbeams.
* A wooden frame to confine unruly horses while they are shod.

#### Related terms

* architrave

### Anagrams

* tarve, avert, Vater

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin trabem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtra.ve/
* Rhymes: -ave
* Hyphenation: trà‧ve

### Noun

trave f (plural travi)
* (architecture) beam, girder, rafter
* (gymnastics) balance beam
    Synonym: trave di equilibrio

#### Related terms

* architrave
* travato
* travatura

### Anagrams

* verta, vertà

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* trawe

### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French trave, from Latin trabem, from Proto-Indo-European *treb-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtraːv(ə)/

### Noun

trave (plural traves) (rare)
* A beam or pole.
* A wooden cage for containing horses that are being shod.

#### Descendants

* English: trave

#### References

* “trā̆ve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Latin trabem, accusative singular of trabs.

### Noun

trave f (plural traves)
* crossbeam

#### Descendants

* French: travée
* → Middle English: trave, trawe
** English: trave

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (trave)

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin trabem, accusative of trabs (“beam”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɾa.βe/

### Noun

trave f
* beam
** 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 266 (facsimile):
    como ſṫa M de caſtro xerez guardou agente que sija na ygreia oyndo ſermon dũa traue que caeu de çima da ygreia ſobreles.
       How holy Mary of Castrojeriz saved the people, who were in the church listening to the sermon, from a beam which fell from above the church on them.

#### Descendants

* Galician: trabe
* Portuguese: trave

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese trave, from Latin trabem (“beam”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɾa.vi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɾa.vi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɾa.ve/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtɾa.vɨ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtɾa.vɨ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈtɾa.bɨ/ [ˈtɾa.βɨ]
* Rhymes: -avi, -avɨ
* Hyphenation: tra‧ve

#### Noun

trave f (plural traves)
* beam
    Synonym: viga
* (architecture) trave (joist)
    Synonym: barrote
* (sports) goalpost
* (sports) crossbar

##### Derived terms

* trave olímpica
* travar, entravar

##### Related terms

* (goalpost): travessão

#### Further reading

* “trave” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

trave
* inflection of travar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

trave (Cyrillic spelling траве)
* inflection of trava:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Swedish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish þravi. Cognate of English thrave (“sheaf”).

### Noun

trave c
* a neat stack
    en trave med ved/böckera stack of wood/books

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | trave | traves |
| singular | definite | traven | travens |
| plural | indefinite | travar | travars |
| plural | definite | travarna | travarnas |

#### Derived terms

* trava
* vedtrave

#### See also

* stapel (“tall stack”)

### References

* trave in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* trave in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* trave in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* trave in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)