different between reive vs rive

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

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?a?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English riven (“to rive”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse rífa (“to rend, tear apart”), from Proto-Germanic *r?fan? (“to tear, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?reyp- (“to crumble, tear”).

Cognate with Danish rive (“to tear”), Old Frisian r?va (“to tear”), Old English ?r?fan (“to let loose, unwrap”), Old Norse ript (“breach of contract, rift”), Norwegian Bokmål rive (“to tear”) and Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”). More at rift.

Verb

rive (third-person singular simple present rives, present participle riving, simple past rived or rove, past participle rived or riven)

1. (transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.
2. (transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
3. (intransitive) To break apart; to split.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, II.vi:

     The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue […].

   • 1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England

     Freestone i.e. that rives, splits, and breaks in any direction.
4. (transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
   • 1821, William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Richard Farmer, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare:

     Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament, To rive their dangerous artillery

5. (woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).

Synonyms

• (to rend asunder): cleave, rend, split

Translations

See also

• rip
• rib

Noun

rive (plural rives)

1. A place torn; a rent; a rift.

Synonyms

• (a place torn): rent, rift

Etymology 2

Compare Latin ripa (“shore”)

Noun

rive (plural rives)

1. A bank or shore.

Verb

rive

1. To land.

Anagrams

• Iver, iver, vier, vire

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?v?/, [??i???], [??i??]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrífa, derived from the verb Old Norse hrífa (“to grip”), from Proto-Germanic *hr?ban? (“to grip, snatch”).

Noun

rive c (singular definite riven, plural indefinite river)

1. rake

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rífa, from Proto-Germanic *r?fan?, cognate with Swedish riva, English rive. In the sense, "to rake", it is derived from the noun.

Verb

rive (past tense rev, past participle revet, common gender attributive reven, plural or definite attributive revne)

1. to grate
2. to scratch, tear, rip
3. to rake

Inflection

Finnish

Etymology

Probably from Swedish drev.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ri?e?/, [?ri?e?(?)]
• Rhymes: -i?e
• Syllabification: ri?ve

Noun

rive

1. oakum, tow

Declension

Derived terms

• tervarive

Anagrams

• revi, veri, vire

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin r?pa, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to cut, tear, scratch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?iv/

Noun

rive f (plural rives)

1. bank (of a river)

Related terms

• arriver
• dériver
• rivage
• rivière

Further reading

• “rive” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ivre, vire, viré

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin r?pa.

Noun

rive f (plural rivis)

1. slope, ascent
2. shore

Related terms

• rivâ
• riviere

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French arriver (“happen”)

Verb

rive

1. happen

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ive

Noun

rive f

1. plural of riva

Anagrams

• veri

Latin

Noun

r?ve

1. vocative singular of r?vus

References

• rive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrífa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?v?/

Noun

rive f or m (definite singular riva or riven, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)

1. a rake (garden and agricultural tool)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rífa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?v?/

Verb

rive (imperative riv, present tense river, passive rives, simple past rev or reiv, past participle revet, present participle rivende)

1. to grate + av
2. to scratch, tear, rip + av

Derived terms

• løsrive
• rivjern

References

• “rive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrífa.

Noun

rive f (definite singular riva, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)

1. a rake (garden and agricultural tool)

Etymology 2

Verb

rive (present tense riv, past tense reiv, supine rive, past participle riven, present participle rivande, imperative riv)

1. Alternative form of riva

References

• “rive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.