Feminine
Meaning

  1. (feminine) ship, vessel (with a concave hull)
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, feminine) ellipsis of nave espacial (“craft, spaceship, spacecraft”) or nave estelar (“starship”)
  3. (feminine) nave, aisle

Frequency

A2
Hyphenated as
na‧ve
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈnabe/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish naf, naue, from Latin nāvem, nāvis, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Cognate with English nave, navigate, and navy.

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