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6-letter words (2 found)

CAVILS,CLAVIS,

5-letter words (9 found)

CAVIL,CLAVI,LAICS,SALIC,SCAIL,SILVA,VAILS,VALIS,VIALS,

4-letter words (16 found)

AILS,ASCI,CALS,LACS,LAIC,LAVS,LIAS,SAIC,SAIL,SIAL,VACS,VAIL,VALI,VIAL,VIAS,VISA,

3-letter words (18 found)

AIL,AIS,ALS,CAL,CIS,LAC,LAS,LAV,LIS,SAC,SAI,SAL,SAV,SIC,VAC,VAS,VIA,VIS,

2-letter words (7 found)

AI,AL,AS,IS,LA,LI,SI,

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Definitions and meaning of clavis

clavis

Etymology

From Latin clāvis (“a key”). Doublet of clef.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkleɪ.vɪs/, /ˈklɑv.ɪs/
  • Rhymes: -eɪvɪs
  • Rhymes: -ævɪs

Noun

clavis (plural clavises or claves)

  1. (archaeology) A Roman key.
    Synonym: key
  2. A device for restraint of the hands.
    Synonym: shackles
  3. A glossary.
    Synonyms: glossary, idioticon, vocabulary
  4. (taxonomy) A key; an identification guide; a series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
    Synonyms: identification guide, conspectus, key

Related terms

  • clavichord

Translations

References

  • “clavis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

  • Slavic, cavils

Catalan

Verb

clavis

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of clavar

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *klāwis. Either a secondary i-stem derivation of the Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“nail, pin, hook - instruments, of old use for locking doors”) which gave also Latin clāvus (“nail”), an inherited Indo-European word originally denoting an instrument for unlocking doors, or a loanword from dialectal Ancient Greek *κλᾱϝίς (*klāwís) (Classical κλείς (kleís)), from the same Proto-Indo-European root.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈklaː.u̯is/, [ˈkɫ̪äːu̯ɪs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkla.vis/, [ˈkläːvis]

Noun

clāvis f (genitive clāvis); third declension

  1. a key
  2. Ellipsis of clāvis trochī.: an instrument in the form of a key, by which a top was set in motion
  3. a lever or bar for tightening a screw press
    Synonym: clāvis torculārī
Usage notes

Not to be confused with clāva (“a staff, cudgel, club”) or clāvus (“a nail”).

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

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See also

  • clāva
  • clāvus

References

  • “clavis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “clavis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • clavis 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)
  • clavis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “clavis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “clavis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Etymology 2

Noun

clāvīs

  1. dative/ablative plural of clāvus

Etymology 3

Noun

clāvīs

  1. dative/ablative plural of clāva

Source: wiktionary.org