# laver
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English laver, lavre, lever, levre, laber (“a kind of water plant”), from Old English læfer, leber (“a rush (plant)”), a borrowing from Latin laver (“water plant”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈlɑːvə/, /ˈleɪvə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈleɪvɚ/, /ˈlɑvɚ/
* Rhymes: -ɑːvə(ɹ), -eɪvə(ɹ)
* Homophones: lava, larva (non-rhotic, with the "broad a" pronunciation)
* Hyphenation: lav‧er

#### Noun

laver (countable and uncountable, plural lavers)
* A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.
** 1847, Margaret Dods [pseudonym; Christian Isobel Johnstone], “Roasting”, in The Cook and Housewife’s Manual. […], 8th edition, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd; London; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., →OCLC, paragraph 19, pages 106–107:To roast a leg, haunch, or saddle of mutton. […] A modern refinement is to put laver in the dripping-pan, which, in basting, imparts a high gout; or a large saddle may be served over a pound and a half of laver, stewed in brown sauce with catsup and seasonings.
* Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially:
** Porphyra vulgaris

##### Derived terms

* black laver (Porphyra dioica)
* green laver (Ulva lactuca, Monostroma grevillei)
* kelp laver (Porphyra drachii)
* laver slack (Porphyra umbilicalis)
* laver sloke (Porphyra umbilicalis)
* laverbread (Porphyra umbilicalis)
* lettuce laver (Ulva lactuca)
* northern pink laver (Porphyra amplissima)
* pale patch laver (Porphyra leucosticta)
* purple laver (Porphyra nereocystis, Porphyra umbilicalis; Ulva lactuca)
* red laver (Porphyra nereocystis, Porphyra suborbiculata, Porphyra perforata, Porphyra umbilicalis)
* tough laver (Porphyra umbilicalis)
* winter laver (Porphyra linearis)

##### Translations
#### See also

* nori

### Etymology 2

From Middle English laver, lavour, from Old French lavor, lavur, laveor, laveour, laveoir, from Latin lavatorium. Doublet of lavatory.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈleɪvə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈleɪvɚ/
* Rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)

#### Noun

laver (plural lavers)
* One who laves: a washer.
* Where one laves, a washroom, particularly a lavatorium, the washing area in a monastery.
* That which laves, particularly a washbasin.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Infinit streames continually did well / Out of this fountaine, sweet and faire to see, / The which into an ample lauer fell […]

##### Synonyms

* (washbasin): See washbasin

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* Ravel, arvel, larve, ravel, reval, velar

## Danish
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɑwˀɐ]

#### Noun

laver c or n (lichen)
* indefinite plural of lav

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlaːvɐ/, [ˈlɛːwɐ], [ˈlɛːwɒ̽]

#### Verb

laver
* present tense of lave

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French laver, from Latin lavāre, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la.ve/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

laver
* to wash
* (reflexive) to wash oneself

#### Derived terms

* entrelaver
* laver son linge sale en public
* machine à laver
* planche à laver
* poudre à laver
* se laver les mains

#### Related terms

* latrines
* lavable
* lavage
* laverie
* laveur
* laveuse
* lavoir
* lavure
* lotion

### Further reading

* “laver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* larve

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈla.u̯er/, [ˈɫ̪äu̯ɛr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈla.ver/, [ˈläːver]

### Noun

laver f (genitive laveris); third declension
* a water-plant, possibly water parsnip (Sium latifolium)

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* → Proto-West Germanic: *laberu (see there for further descendants)

#### References

* “laver”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* laver in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* ↑ http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059:entry%3Dlaver

### Verb

laver
* first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lavō

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English læfer.

#### Alternative forms

* lavre, lafere, lever

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlaːvər/

#### Noun

laver (plural lavers)
* A kind of water plant.

##### Descendants

* English: laver
* Yola: levers (plural)

##### References

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

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

laver
* Alternative form of lavour

## Norman
### Alternative forms

* lavaïr (Guernsey)

### Etymology

From Old French laver, from Latin lavō, lavāre.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Jersey):(file)

### Verb

laver (gerund lav'thie)
* (Jersey) to wash

#### Derived terms

* lavage (“washing”)
* lavement (“enema”)
* laver les vaissieaux (“to wash up, do the dishes”)
* laveux (“dishcloth”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

laver m or n
* indefinite plural of lav

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin lavāre.

### Verb

laver
* (transitive) to wash
* (reflexive, se laver) to get washed

#### Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. This verb has a stressed present stem lev distinct from the unstressed stem lav. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

#### Related terms

* lavanderie

#### Descendants

* French: laver
* Norman: laver (Jersey), lavaïr (Guernsey)

### See also

* nettoier