bove
English
Alternative forms
- 'bove
Etymology
From Old English bufan, from Proto-Germanic *bi (“by”) + *ufanē (“from above”). Cognate with Dutch boven. In later use generally intended or considered as an abbreviation of above.
Preposition
bove
- Above.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
- 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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
Danish
Italian
Etymology
From Latin bovem, accusative of bos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Doublet of bue.
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Latin
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