bove

See also: Bove, bovë, and bovə

English

Alternative forms

• 'bove

Etymology

Probably an apheretic form of above. Alternatively, this word may continue Middle English bove, boven, from Old English bufan, from Proto-West Germanic *biobanā, from *bi (“by”) + *ufanā (“from above”). Compare West Frisian boppe, Dutch boven and Low German baven, boven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʌv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Preposition

bove

1. (now colloquial or dialectal) Above.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Her Sea-god syre she dearely did perswade,
     T'endow her sonne with threasure and rich store,
     Boue all the sonnes, that were of earthly wombes ybore.

Anagrams

• EBOV

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔvə/, [ˈb̥ɒːʊ]
• Homophone: borge

Noun

bove c

1. indefinite plural of bov

Interlingua

Noun

bove (plural boves)

1. ox (castrated male bovine, any male bovine)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin bovem. Doublet of bue. Cognate with Sicilian voi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.ve/
• Rhymes: -ɔve
• Hyphenation: bò‧ve

Noun

bove m (plural bovi, diminutive bovétto, augmentative bovóne, pejorative bovàccio)

1. ox

   Synonym: bue

Related terms

• bovino

Further reading

• “bove”, in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• “bove” in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• “bove” in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• “bove” in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• “bòve” in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• “bòve”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Anagrams

• bevo

Latin

Alternative forms

• bovīd (rare)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔ.wɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔː.ve]

Noun

bove

1. ablative singular of bōs