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reve
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French rêver.
Verb
reve
- 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)
- 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;
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue to the Reves Tale, 1915, The College Chaucer, page 94,
- An administrator of an estate or manor; a manager or steward.
- (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
- Alternative form of reven
Etymology 3
Noun
reve
- 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)
- a taxation on imports and exports
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe 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)
- (nautical) to reef (a sail)
- "Rev seilene, rev seilene!", skrek kapteinen. [1]
References
- “reve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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rive
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)
- (transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.
- (transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
- (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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, II.vi:
- (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
- 1821, William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Richard Farmer, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare:
- (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)
- A place torn; a rent; a rift.
Synonyms
- (a place torn): rent, rift
Etymology 2
Compare Latin ripa (“shore”)
Noun
rive (plural rives)
- A bank or shore.
Verb
rive
- 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)
- 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)
- to grate
- to scratch, tear, rip
- to rake
Inflection
Finnish
Etymology
Probably from Swedish drev.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ri?e?/, [?ri?e?(?)]
- Rhymes: -i?e
- Syllabification: ri?ve
Noun
rive
- 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)
- 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)
- slope, ascent
- shore
Related terms
- rivâ
- riviere
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French arriver (“happen”)
Verb
rive
- happen
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ive
Noun
rive f
- plural of riva
Anagrams
- veri
Latin
Noun
r?ve
- 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)
- 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)
- to grate + av
- 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)
- 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)
- Alternative form of riva
References
- “rive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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