different between reeve vs reve

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

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.