valva

Borrowed from Latin valva (“double door, valve”). Doublet of valve.

valva (plural valvae)

1. A paired copulatory organ of males in some species of insects that helps the male clasp the female.

• IPA^(key): /ˈval.va/
• Rhymes: -alva
• Hyphenation: vàl‧va

valva f (plural valve)

1. (anatomy, zoology) valve, half shell

From Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, round”). Cognate with Latin volvō (“I roll”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯al.u̯a/, [ˈu̯äɫ̪u̯ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈval.va/, [ˈvälvä]

valva f (genitive valvae); first declension

1. double or folding door (in plural)
2. one leaf of such doors

First-declension noun.

• valvula
• valvularis
• valvulosus

• → English: valva
• → Middle English: valve
  • English: valve
    • → Cantonese: 嘩佬 (waa1 lou2)
    • → Japanese: バルブ (barubu)
    • → Thai: วาล์ว (waao)

• “valva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• valva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to barricade a door (a city-gate): valvas (portam) obstruere
    
• “valva”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

valva f (plural valvas)

1. (anatomy) valve (membrane which permits passage in one direction)

   Synonym: válvula

• válvula

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valva f (plural valvas)

1. (anatomy) valve

• “valva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014