# clava
## English
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “probably derived from Latin”)

### Noun

clava (plural clavas)
* Synonym of gracile tubercle
* (entomology) The fused distal segments of the antenna of a chalcid wasp.
    Synonym: club

### Anagrams

* Calva, calva, caval

## Asturian
### Verb

clava
* inflection of clavar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈkla.βə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈkla.və]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈkla.va]

### Verb

clava
* inflection of clavar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin clāva (“club”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkla.va/
* Rhymes: -ava
* Hyphenation: clà‧va

### Noun

clava f (plural clave)
* club
* (sports) Indian club

### Anagrams

* calva, valca

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *klāwā, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat, break”). Cognate with Latin clādes, percellō, gladius.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈklaː.u̯a/, [ˈkɫ̪äːu̯ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkla.va/, [ˈkläːvä]

### Noun

clāva f (genitive clāvae); first declension
* a club, cudgel

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* clāvula
* clavator

#### Descendants

* → Italian: clava
* → Portuguese: clava
* → Spanish: clava

### References

* “clava”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “clava”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "clava", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* clava in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “clava”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “clava”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin clāva (“club”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkla.vɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkla.vɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkla.va/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkla.vɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkla.vɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈkla.bɐ/ [ˈkla.βɐ]
* Rhymes: -avɐ, (Northern Portugal) -abɐ
* Hyphenation: cla‧va

### Noun

clava f (plural clavas)
* club (weapon)
    Synonyms: porrete, cacete, maça

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈklaba/ [ˈkla.β̞a]
* Rhymes: -aba
* Syllabification: cla‧va

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin clāva (“club”).

#### Noun

clava f (plural clavas)
* club (weapon)
    Synonyms: cachiporra, porra, maza

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

clava
* inflection of clavar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “clava”, 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