different between reeve vs reive

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?v/
• Rhymes: -i?v
• Homophone: reave

Etymology 1

From Middle English reve, from Old English r?fa, an aphetism of ?er?fa (also groefa), from Proto-West Germanic *gar?fij? (“officer, official”). Compare Danish greve, Swedish greve, Dutch graaf, German Graf. Role, and later word, mostly replaced by bailiff, of Anglo-Norman origin.

Noun

reeve (plural reeves)

1. (historical) Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.
2. (Canada) The president of a township or municipal district council.
3. (military, historical) The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander.
   • 1936, The Periodical (Oxford University Press), volumes 21–22, page 67

     A list of new titles was manufactured as follows: Ensign, Lieutenant, Flight-Leader, Squadron-Leader, Reeve, Banneret, Fourth-Ardian, Third-Ardian, Second-Ardian, Ardian, Air Marshal. […] “Reeve”, perhaps, savoured a little too much of legal authority.

Synonyms

• (medieval official): provost

Related terms

• sheriff

See also

• bailiff

Translations

Etymology 2

Apparent alternative form of reef (“to pull or yank strongly”, verb) or from Dutch reven (“to take in, insert”).

Verb

reeve (third-person singular simple present reeves, present participle reeving, simple past and past participle reeved or rove)

1. (nautical, dialect) To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it.
   • 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, 1985, p.98:

     "Let the rope go," he says. With his other hand he reaches down and reeves the two turns from the stanchion.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

reeve (plural reeves)

2. A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff.

Anagrams

• evere

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English r?fa.

Noun

reeve

1. Alternative form of reve

Etymology 2

From Old English r?afian.

Verb

reeve

1. Alternative form of reven

English

Verb

reive (third-person singular simple present reives, present participle reiving, simple past and past participle reived or reft)

1. Archaic spelling of reave.
   • 1567 July 19, Proclamation by the Earl of Bedford, quoted in Calendar of State Papers, foreign series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1566-8 (1871), volume 10:

     [The earl] commands all within his charge to abstain from reiving or stealing from the subjects of Scotland. For such riefs as have been made upon them, the Queen minds to have the same mended by justice.

   • 2014, Peter T. Leeson, Anarchy Unbound ?ISBN:

     So, although many borderers regularly engaged in reiving, most were also part-time agriculturalists, raising crops such as oats and rye, as well as livestock.

Anagrams

• revie, rieve, verie

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Central Franconian rieve

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra??v?/

Verb

reive

1. to rub

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian brev, Swedish brev.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?rej?ve/

Noun

reive

1. letter (message)

Inflection

Alternative forms

• breava

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland