overwordExplorer
LATIN · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

clava.

club, cudgel; staff; knotty/rough/wooden stick; exercise sword; Spartan scytale; golf-club; (Cal);

5 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈkɫaː.wa]Classical-Latin[ˈklaː.va]
  1. a club, cudgel

    declension-1
Where this word comes from

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

FROM WORD TO NAME

Try it on your idea.

clava has 5 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.

clava studioclava workshello, clava

These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.

Explore the name generator

A word with a source.

Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.

Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.