different between cleve vs clive

English

Etymology

From Middle English cleve, from Old English cl?ofa, cl?afa (“that which is cloven, a cleft, chasm, cave, den, lair, cell, chamber, cellar, apartment”), from Proto-Germanic *klebô (“chamber, cell”), from Proto-Indo-European *glewb?- (“to cut, cleave, split, divide”). Cognate with Old Norse klefi (“a closet, sleeping closet, bedroom”) (whence Icelandic klefi (“cell, compartment”)). Related to cleave.

Noun

cleve (plural cleves)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A room; chamber.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) A cottage.
3. (obsolete) A cliff or hillside.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English cl?ofa, from Proto-Germanic *klebô.

Alternative forms

• kleve

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kle?v(?)/, /?kl??v(?)/

Noun

cleve (plural cleves)

1. (rare) An abode or home; where someone resides.
2. (rare) A granary.

Descendants

• English: cleve

References

• “cl?ve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-31.

Etymology 2

Verb

cleve

1. Alternative form of cleven (“to split”)

Etymology 3

Verb

cleve

1. Alternative form of cleven (“to stick”)

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English cliven, from Old English cl?fan (“to cleave, adhere, stick”), from Proto-Germanic *kl?ban? (“to glue, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleyb?- (“to lubricate, stick”). Cognate with Dutch kleven (“to adhere, stick”), German kleben (“to adhere, stick”), Swedish kliva (“to climb, stalk”), Icelandic klífa (“to climb, ascend”).

Verb

clive (third-person singular simple present clives, present participle cliving, simple past clived or clove, past participle clived or cliven)

1. (intransitive) To climb; ascend.

Etymology 2

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English clife (“clifers (cleavers), burdock”). Cognate with Middle Dutch kleve, klijve (“burdock”), Middle Low German klive (“burdock”).

Noun

clive (plural clives)

1. Burdock or agrimony.

Etymology 3

From Middle English cliven, from Old Norse klyfja, klufða (“to split, chop, cleave”), from Proto-Germanic *kleuban? (“to split, pick”), from Proto-Indo-European *glewb?- (“to cut, carve, peel”). Cognate with Old English cl?ofan (“to cleave, split, separate”). Doublet of cleave.

Verb

clive (third-person singular simple present clives, present participle cliving, simple past and past participle clived)

1. (transitive) To split; separate; cleave; chop.
   • 1990, John Ashurst, Francis G. Dimes, Conservation of building and decorative stone: Volume 1:

     After 'frosting' the stone may be 'clived' or split along the bedding planes. Once clived, the thin slabs are dressed for use and sold as Collyweston Slates, for use as tilestones.

   • 2007, Robert Ader, Psychoneuroimmunology:

     IL-1? presents the peculiarity of being produced in the form of a biologically inactive precursor, known as proIL-1?, that needs to be clived at an aspartate residue by a specific enzyme, named interleukin-1? converting enzyme (ICE) or [...]

Anagrams

• velic

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: clivent, clives

Verb

clive

1. first-person singular present indicative of cliver
2. third-person singular present indicative of cliver
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cliver
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cliver
5. second-person singular imperative of cliver

Latin

Noun

cl?ve

1. vocative singular of cl?vus

Middle English

Noun

clive

1. Alternative form of clyf