clava

Borrowed from Latin clāva (“club, staff, knotty branch”).

clava (plural clavas)

1. Synonym of gracile tubercle.
2. (entomology) The fused distal segments of the antenna of a chalcid wasp.

   Synonym: club

• Calva, calva, caval

clava

1. inflection of clavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkla.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈkla.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkla.va]

clava

1. inflection of clavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Latin clāva (“club”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkla.va/
• Rhymes: -ava
• Hyphenation: clà‧va

clava f (plural clave)

1. club
2. (sports) Indian club

• calva, valca

From Proto-Italic *klāwā, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat, break”). Cognate with Latin clādes, percellō, gladius. Unrelated to clavicula, clavis or clavus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɫaː.wa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈklaː.va]

clāva f (genitive clāvae); first declension

1. a club, cudgel

First-declension noun.

• clāvula
• clavator

• → Italian: clava
• → Portuguese: clava
• → Spanish: clava

• “clava”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clava”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "clava", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “clava”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “clava”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “clava”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Latin clāva (“club”).

• Rhymes: -avɐ, (Northern Portugal) -abɐ
• Hyphenation: cla‧va

clava f (plural clavas)

1. club (weapon)

   Synonyms: porrete, cacete, maça

• “clava”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “clava”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaba/ [ˈkla.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: cla‧va

Borrowed from Latin clāva (“club”).

clava f (plural clavas)

1. club (weapon)

   Synonyms: cachiporra, porra, maza

clava

1. inflection of clavar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “clava”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025