enclave
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave (“enclave”), deverbal of enclaver (“to inclose”), from Old French enclaver (“to inclose, lock in”), from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre (“to lock in”), from in + Latin clavis (“key”) or clavus (“nail, bolt”). Compare inlock.
Pronunciation
; IPA(key): /ˈɛnkleɪv/, /ˈɛŋkleɪv/, /ˈɒ̃kleɪv/Audio (UK) (file)
; IPA(key): /ˈɑnkleɪv/, /ˈɛnkleɪv/, /ˈɑŋkleɪv/Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪv
Noun
enclave (plural enclaves)
- A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
- The republic of San Marino is an enclave of Italy.
- The streets around Union Square form a Protestant enclave within an otherwise Catholic neighbourhood.
- A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
- 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:
- What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
- (computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.
- 2010, Mike Ebbers, Dino Tonelli, Jason Arnold, Co-locating Transactional and Data Warehouse Workloads on System z, page 245:
- When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave.
Usage notes
Enclaves are generally also exclaves, though exceptions exist (as detailed at list of enclaves and exclaves), and in common speech only the term enclave is used.
An enclave is an area surrounded by another area, while an exclave is an area cut off from the main area. An area can be cut off without being surrounded (such as Kaliningrad Oblast, cut off from the rest of Russia by Lithuania, Poland, and the Baltic Sea) hence exclaved without being enclaved, or surrounded without being cut off (such as the Kingdom of Lesotho, enclaved in South Africa, but not exclaved).
- C is A's enclave and B's exclave.
- C is an exclave of B, but not an enclave of A.
A pene-enclave (resp., pene-exclave) is an area that is an enclave "for practical purposes", but does not meet the strict definition. This is a very technical term.
Derived terms
Translations
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See also
Verb
enclave (third-person singular simple present enclaves, present participle enclaving, simple past and past participle enclaved)
References
- (group set off from a larger population by a characteristic): Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life - Page 74
by Robert Neelly Bellah, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. Tipton, Richard Madsen - 1996
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French enclave, from Middle French enclave.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɑŋˈklaː.və/, /ˌɛŋˈklaː.və/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: en‧cla‧ve
- Rhymes: -aːvə
Derived terms
- enclavedorp
- moslimenclave
French
Etymology
From enclaver.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.klav/
Audio (FR) (file)
Further reading
- “enclave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /enˈkla.ve/, (traditional) /anˈklav/[1]
- Rhymes: -ave, (traditional) -av
- Hyphenation: en‧clà‧ve
References
- enclave in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈkla.vi/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈkla.vi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈkla.ve/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈkla.ve/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽˈkla.vɨ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽˈkla.bɨ/ [ẽˈkla.βɨ]
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /enˈklabe/ [ẽŋˈkla.β̞e]
- Rhymes: -abe
- Syllabification: en‧cla‧ve
Verb
enclave
- inflection of enclavar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “enclave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014