different between drove vs abactor

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d???v/
  • Rhymes: -??v
• (General American) IPA: /d?o?v/
• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) IPA^(key): /d??o?v/ (Used in some regions of the US, particularly the Midwest)

Etymology 1

From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English dr?f (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draib? (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyb?- (“to drive, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er- (“to support”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.

Noun

drove (plural droves)

1. A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
2. (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
3. (collective) A group of hares.
4. A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven.
5. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
6. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
7. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.

Derived terms

• in droves

Translations

Etymology 2

From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English dr?f, first and third person singular indicative preterite of dr?fan (“to drive”).

Verb

drove

1. simple past tense of drive

drove (third-person singular simple present droves, present participle droving, simple past and past participle droved)

1. To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
2. (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Devor, Dover, Dovre, Voder, roved, vedro, vored

Middle English

Adjective

drove

1. Alternative form of drof

English

Alternative forms

• abacter

Etymology

From Late Latin abactor (“cattle rustler”), from abig? (“drive away”); from ab (“from, away from”) + ag? (“drive”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æ?bæk.t?/, /æ?bæk.t?/

Noun

abactor (plural abactors)

1. (law, obsolete) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler. [Attested from the mid 17^th century until the early 19^th century.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:rustler

Hyponyms

• horse thief, sheepstealer, napper (obsolete)

Translations

References

Anagrams

• CATOBAR, acrobat

Latin

Etymology

From abig? (“drive away”), from ab (“from, away from”) + ag? (“drive”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?ba?k.tor/, [ä?bä?kt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?bak.tor/, [??b?kt??r]

Noun

ab?ctor m (genitive ab?ct?ris); third declension

1. A cattle thief; abactor or rustler.
2. A man who abducts.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (cattle thief): abige?tor, abigeus

Related terms

Descendants

• ? English: abactor
• ? Portuguese: abactor

References

• abactor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abactor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin abactor.

Pronunciation

• (Caipira) IPA^(key): /a?bak(i)?to?/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /a?bak(i)?to?/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /a?bak(i)?to?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?b?kt?o?/
• Hyphenation: a?bac?tor

Noun

abactor m (plural abactores, feminine abactora, feminine plural abactoras)

1. abactor (cattle thief)

   Synonym: abígeo

Related terms

• abacto