cleve
/klˈiv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.59 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cottage.
name
A small town on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, named after Cleve House in Devon, England.
name
A local government area is this area of South Australia; in full, the District Council of Cleve.
name
A surname.
name
A male given name, found predominantly in the United States.
Etymology
From Middle English cleve, from Old English cleofa (“that which is cloven, a cleft, chasm, cave, den, lair, cell, chamber, cellar, apartment”), from Proto-Germanic *klebô (“chamber, cell”), from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- (“to cut, cleave, split, divide”). Cognate with Old Norse klefi (“a closet, sleeping closet, bedroom”) (whence Icelandic klefi (“cell, compartment”)). Related to cleave.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: cleve, cleofa, *klebô, *glewbʰ-