naeve

See also: näve and næve

English

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Etymology

Latin naevus.

Noun

naeve (plural naeves)

  1. (obsolete) A naevus; a pigmented spot.
    • 1649, John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings
      Was there no milder way but the smallpox; The very filthiness of Pandora's box? So many spots, like næves, our Venus soil?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for naeve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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Latin

Noun

naeve

  1. vocative singular of naevus
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