clava

clava (plural clavas)

1. Synonym of gracile tubercle
2. (entomology) The fused distal segments of the antenna of a chalcid wasp.

   Synonym: club

• Calva, calva, caval

clava

1. inflection of clavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkla.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈkla.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈkla.va]

clava

1. inflection of clavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Latin clāva (“club”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkla.va/
• Rhymes: -ava
• Hyphenation: clà‧va

clava f (plural clave)

1. club
2. (sports) Indian club

• calva, valca

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈklaː.u̯a/, [ˈkɫ̪äːu̯ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.va/, [ˈkläːvä]

clāva f (genitive clāvae); first declension

1. a club, cudgel

First-declension noun.

• clāvula
• clavator

• “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

Borrowed from Latin clāva (“club”).

• Rhymes: -avɐ, (Northern Portugal) -abɐ
• Hyphenation: cla‧va

clava f (plural clavas)

1. club (weapon)

   Synonyms: porrete, cacete, maça

Borrowed from Latin clāva (“club”).

clava f (plural clavas)

1. club (weapon)

   Synonyms: cachiporra, porra, maza

clava

1. inflection of clavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “clava”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014