# dove
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”).
Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dʌv/
* Rhymes: -ʌv
* Audio (US); “dove” (noun):(file)

#### Noun

dove (countable and uncountable, plural doves)
* (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.
    Synonym: peace dove
    Antonym: hawk
* (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Song of Solomon 2:14:O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice.
* A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
* (slang, countable) Short for love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).

##### Synonyms

* (pigeon): columbid, columbiform, culver, pigeon

##### Derived terms

* Barbary dove (Streptopelia risoria)
* bar-shouldered dove
* beautiful fruit dove
* collared dove
* cuckoo dove, cuckoo-dove
* cushat dove, cushat-dove
* dead dove
* diamond dove (Geopelia cuneata)
* dovecot, dovecote
* Dove Creek
* dove-eyed
* dove gray, dove grey
* dovehouse
* dovekie
* dovelet
* dovelike
* doveling
* dovely
* dove of peace
* dove orchid
* dove plant (Peristeria elata)
* doveplum
* doveship
* dovetail
* dove tree (Davidia involucrata)
* dove weed
* dovish
* eared dove (Zenaida auriculata)
* Fleet Street dove
* fruit dove, fruit-dove (Ptilinopus)
* Galapagos dove (Zenaida galapagoensis)
* ground dove (Claravinae spp., Phabini spp.)
* Inca dove
* laughing dove
* little brown dove
* lovey-dovey
* moaning dove (Columbina passerina)
* mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)
* Nicobar dove
* Pacific dove (Zenaida meloda)
* palm dove
* peaceful dove
* Philippine cuckoo-dove
* quail dove, quail-dove
* rain dove (Zenaida macroura)
* release dove
* ringdove
* ring dove (Streptopelia risoria)
* ringed dove
* ringneck dove (Streptopelia risoria)
* rock dove (Columba livia)
* Samoan dove
* scaled dove
* sea dove
* Senegal dove
* Socorro dove (Zenaida graysoni)
* soiled dove
* stockdove
* stock dove (Columba oenas)
* sucking-dove
* tambourine dove (Turtur tympanistria)
* tobacco dove (Columbina passerina)
* tree-dove
* turtledove, turtle-dove, turtle dove
* West Peruvian dove (Zenaida meloda)
* white-winged dove (Zenaida asiatica)
* wood dove
* zebra dove (Geopelia striata)
* zenaida dove (Zenaida spp, especially Zenaida aurita)

##### Descendants

* → Norwegian Bokmål: due (semantic loan)

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

A modern dialectal formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive → drove and weave → wove.

#### Alternative forms

* dived

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dōv, IPA: /dəʊv/
* (US) enPR: dōv, IPA: /doʊv/
* Audio (US); “dove” (verb):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊv

#### Verb

dove
* (chiefly Canada, US and England 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
    When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.
* (nonstandard) past participle of dive

##### Usage notes

* See dive for dived vs. dove.

### References

* “dove” listed as a North American and English dialectal past tense form of “dive, v.”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

### Anagrams

* devo

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdoː.və/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: do‧ve

### Etymology 1

From doof +‎ -e.

#### Noun

dove m or f (plural doven)
* a deaf person
    Synonym: doveman

##### Derived terms

* doventaal
* doventolk

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

dove
* inflection of doof:
** masculine/feminine singular attributive
** definite neuter singular attributive
** plural attributive

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

dove
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of doven

### Anagrams

* voed

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin doga, from Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éh₂. Compare Italian doga, Venetan dova, doa, French douve.

### Noun

dove f (plural dovis)
* stave

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* dov' (acopic, before a vowel or 'h')

### Etymology

From Latin dē ubi, or from a strengthening of the older form ove with a prothetic d-. Compare Piedmontese doa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdo.ve/$^°$, (traditional) /ˈdo.ve/$^*$
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ove
* Hyphenation: dó‧ve

### Conjunction

dove
* where
    Lo troverai dove l'hai lasciato. ― You'll find it where you left it.

#### Derived terms

* laddove

#### Related terms

* ove

### Adverb

dove
* (interrogative) where, whereabouts
    Dove vai? ― Where are you going?
    Dove vivi? ― Whereabouts do you live?

### Anagrams

* devo, vedo

## Middle English
### Noun

dove
* Alternative form of douve

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* dovent

### Adjective

dove
* neuter singular of doven