different between rivet vs grivet

English

Etymology

From Old French rivet (13th century), from the verb Old French river (“to fetter [a person]”) (12th century), from Old French rive (“rim, edge”) (ca. 1100), which is ultimately from Latin ripa (“riverbank”). Compare river, rival, riparian.

The sense "kind of footman's armour" is a back-formation from almain-rivet which in turn is derived from the English noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v?t/
• Rhymes: -?v?t

Noun

rivet (plural rivets)

1. A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.
2. (figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.
3. (obsolete) A light kind of footman's armour.

Derived terms

• rivet counter
• pop rivet

Translations

Verb

rivet (third-person singular simple present rivets, present participle riveting or rivetting, simple past and past participle riveted or rivetted)

1. (transitive) To attach or fasten parts by using rivets. [from early 15th c.]
2. (transitive) To install rivets.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To command the attention of. [from c. 1600]
   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6

4. (transitive, figuratively) To make firm or immovable.

   Terror riveted him to the spot.

Translations

See also

• riveters
• riveting
• riveter
• rivets
• riveted

Further reading

• rivet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Vitré, tiver

French

Etymology

From Latin ripa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.v?/

Noun

rivet m (plural rivets)

1. rivet (mechanical fastener)

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

r?vet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of r?v?

English

Etymology

From French grivet

Noun

grivet (plural grivets)

1. An Old World monkey, Chlorocebus aethiops, with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face.