different between reave vs reve

English

Alternative forms

• reive, rieve (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?v/

• Rhymes: -i?v

• Homophone: reeve

Etymology 1

From Middle English reven, from Old English r?afian, from Proto-West Germanic *raub?n.

Germanic cognates include West Frisian rave, Old English r?af (“spoils, booty”)), and Old English past participle rofen (“torn, broken”), Norwegian rjuva, German rauben, Danish røve, and Swedish röva. Outside of Germanic, related to Latin rumpere (“to break”), Lithuanian rùpti (“to roughen”), Sanskrit ?????? (ropayati, “to make suffer”)). See rob and reif.

Verb

reave (third-person singular simple present reaves, present participle reaving, simple past and past participle reaved or reft)

1. (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
2. (archaic) To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.

Derived terms

• border reiver

Related terms

• bereave
• reaver
• rip
• rob

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of rive by confusion with the above.

Verb

reave (third-person singular simple present reaves, present participle reaving, simple past and past participle reft)

1. (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.

Related terms

• rive
• unreaved

Middle English

Verb

reave

1. Alternative form of reven

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French rêver.

Verb

reve

1. dream

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English r?fa, ?er?fa.

Alternative forms

• refe, reeve, reyve, reove

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?v(?)/

Noun

reve (plural reves or reven)

1. A reeve or bailiff (a local official); an administrator.
   • 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue to the Reves Tale, 1915, The College Chaucer, page 94,

     Ne at this tale I saugh no man hym greve, / But it were oonly Osewold the Reve;

2. An administrator of an estate or manor; a manager or steward.
3. (Christianity) A subordinate or deputy of God.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)

Related terms

• shirreve

Descendants

• English: reeve

References

• “r??ve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-01.

Etymology 2

Verb

reve

1. Alternative form of reven

Etymology 3

Noun

reve

1. Alternative form of reif

Middle French

Alternative forms

• resve

Etymology

Old French rueve, ultimately from Latin rog? (“I ask; I demand”).

Noun

reve f (plural reves)

1. a taxation on imports and exports

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (reve)
• reve on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the noun rev

Verb

reve (imperative rev, present tense rever, passive reves, simple past reva or revet or revde, past participle reva or revet or revd, present participle revende)

1. (nautical) to reef (a sail)
   • "Rev seilene, rev seilene!", skrek kapteinen. [1]

References

• “reve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.