pave

See also: pavé, påve, and pavê

English

Etymology

From Old French paver (“to pave, to cover”), from Vulgar Latin *pavāre (“to beat down, to smash”), from Latin pavīre, present active infinitive of paviō (“I beat, strike, ram, tread down”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pāv, IPA^(key): /peɪv/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪv

Verb

pave (third-person singular simple present paves, present participle paving, simple past and past participle paved)

1. (British) To cover something with paving slabs.
2. (Canada, US) To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel.
   • 1970, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Big Yellow Taxi”, in Ladies of the Canyon:

     They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot.

3. (transitive, figurative) To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth.
   • 2011, Rice Baker-Yeboah, The Animal Pathways 1-2, page 110:

     After two weeks Miguel began to circulate freely about the city in his truck, albeit with the long, chrome-plated pistol cocked and ready on his lap. It wouldn't be for three more years that Gonzo would tell Miguel about the secret leverage that paved his path to freedom.

Derived terms

• depave
• nuke and pave
• pavement
• paven
• paver
• pave the cowpath
• pave the road to hell
• pave the way
• paving stone
• unpave

 

Translations

(British) to cover with paving stones

• Azerbaijani: daşlamaq
• Bulgarian: павирам (paviram)
• Catalan: pavimentar (ca) (with asphalt), empedrar (ca) (with stones)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鋪砌／铺砌 (zh) (pūqì)

• Danish: brolægge
• Dutch: bestraten (nl), betegelen (nl)
• Esperanto: pavimi
• Finnish: kivetä (fi)
• French: paver (fr)
• German: mit Platten auslegen
• Italian: lastricare, pavimentare (it)
• Japanese: 敷く (ja) (しく, shiku)
• Latin: pavīmentō
• Occitan: caladar (oc), pavar, pasimentar (oc), pavimentar
• Portuguese: pavimentar (pt)
• Quechua: khallkiy
• Russian: мости́ть (ru) impf (mostítʹ), вы́мостить (ru) pf (výmostitʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: (floor) ùrlaraich
• Spanish: pavimentar (es)

(North American) to cover with stones, asphalt, etc

• Bulgarian: настилам (bg) (nastilam)
• Catalan: pavimentar (ca) (with asphalt), empedrar (ca) (with stones)
• Danish: asfaltere (da) (only with asphalt)
• Dutch: bestraten (nl), asfalteren (nl) (only with asphalt)
• Finnish: päällystää (fi), kivetä (fi)
• French: paver (fr)
• Galician: pavimentar (gl)
• German: pflastern (de), bepflastern (de)
• Japanese: 敷く (ja) (しく, shiku), 舗装する (ja) (ほそうする, hosō suru)
• Malay: turap
• Norwegian: asfaltere (no) (with asphalt), steinlegge (with stones)
• Occitan: pasimentar (oc), pavimentar
• Portuguese: pavimentar (pt)
• Russian: мости́ть (ru) impf (mostítʹ), вы́мостить (ru) pf (výmostitʹ) (with stone), асфальти́ровать (ru) impf (asfalʹtírovatʹ), заасфальти́ровать (ru) pf (zaasfalʹtírovatʹ) (with asphalt)
• Spanish: pavimentar (es)
• Swedish: asfaltera (sv) (with asphalt), stenlägga (sv) (with stones)

Anagrams

• EVAP, vape

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish pauæ (Old Norse páfi), from Old Saxon pavos (Middle Low German pawes, paves), from Old French papes, from Latin pāpa (“father”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paːvə/, [ˈpʰæːwə]
• Rhymes: -aːvə

Noun

pave c (singular definite paven, plural indefinite paver)

1. pope

Declension

Declension of pave

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pave	paven	paver	paverne
genitive	paves	pavens	pavers	pavernes

Derived terms

• pavedømme
• pavehof
• pavelig
• pavestol
• pavevalg

Further reading

• “pave” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “pave” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pav/

Verb

pave

1. inflection of paver:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Verb

pavē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of paveō

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

pave m (definite singular paven, indefinite plural paver, definite plural pavene)

1. pope

Derived terms

• juksepave

Related terms

• pavedømme
• pavelig

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

pave m (definite singular paven, indefinite plural pavar, definite plural pavane)

1. pope

Derived terms

• juksepave
• paveleg

Related terms

• pavedøme, pavedømme