different between rivage vs ravage

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman rivage, Middle French rivage, from rive + -age.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???v?d?/

Noun

rivage (plural rivages)

1. (now rare, poetic) A coast, a shore.
   • 1892, Michael Field, "The Death of Procris"

     […] leaves have taken flight

     From yon

     Slim seedling-birch on the rivage, the flock

     Of herons has the quiet of solitude […]

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Recollections of the Arabian Nights

     From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical.

2. (law, Britain, historical) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.

Anagrams

• Argive, virgae

French

Etymology

From rive +? -age, ultimately from Latin ripaticus (“moorage, shore”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.va?/
• Homophone: rivages
• Hyphenation: ri?vage
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

rivage m (plural rivages)

1. bank; shore; coast

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• virage

Old French

Noun

rivage m (oblique plural rivages, nominative singular rivages, nominative plural rivage)

1. riverbank or shore

Descendants

• ? English: rivage
• French: rivage

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (rivage, supplement)
• rivage on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Etymology

From French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), from ravir (“to bear away suddenly”), from Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), akin to Ancient Greek ?????? (harpáz?, “to seize”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æv?d?/

Verb

ravage (third-person singular simple present ravages, present participle ravaging, simple past and past participle ravaged)

1. (transitive) To devastate or destroy something.
2. (transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
3. (intransitive) To wreak destruction.

Related terms

• rapid

Translations

Noun

ravage (plural ravages)

1. Grievous damage or havoc.
2. Depredation or devastation

   the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time

Translations

Further reading

• ravage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ravage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra??va?.??/
• Hyphenation: ra?va?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

ravage f (plural ravages)

1. havoc, damage

Anagrams

• gevaar

French

Etymology

From ravine (“rush of water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.va?/

Noun

ravage m (plural ravages)

1. singular of ravages
2. (archaic) The act of laying waste.

Verb

ravage

1. first-person singular present indicative of ravager
2. third-person singular present indicative of ravager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ravager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ravager
5. second-person singular imperative of ravager

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• gavera