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Vinony

dove

noun

  1. heraldic animal
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /dʌv/ / /dʊv/ / /dəʊv/ / /doʊv/

name

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 (“deaf”); see deaf.

  1. A river in England, forming the boundary between Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
  2. A river in Suffolk, England, a tributary of the Waveney.
  3. An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri, United States.
  4. A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Caelum and Puppis.
  5. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-der.? Proto-Germanic *dūbaną? Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ Proto-West Germanic *dūbā Old English *dūfe Middle English douve English dove From Middle English douve, dove, 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).

  1. 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 three hundred species of the family Columbidae.

    “Dove's brains have been prepared by chefs for amorous expectations.”

  2. A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.

    “On the left are the activist Vietniks, eager to protest the war; next are the doves, who oppose the U.S. role but shun demonstrations; and in the middle are the apathetics, who simply are not concerned enough to think through their own stand.”

  3. A term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.

    “O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice.”

  4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
  5. Ellipsis of love dove (“a tablet of the drug ecstasy”).

verb

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

  1. 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.”

  2. past participle of dive