different between rove vs reve

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Etymology 1

Probably from Middle English *roven, a Midlands variant of Northern Middle English raven (“to wander”), from Old Norse ráfa (“to rove; stray about”). Cognate with Icelandic ráfa (“to wander”), Scots rave (“to wander; stray; roam”).

Verb

rove (third-person singular simple present roves, present participle roving, simple past and past participle roved)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:

     And thou […] that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue […]

2. (intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1

     Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him.

3. (transitive) To roam or wander through.
4. (transitive) To card wool or other fibres.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

5. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
6. To draw through an eye or aperture.
7. To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
8. To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.

Derived terms

• rover
• roved
• roving

Related terms

• reeve

Translations

Noun

rove (plural roves)

1. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
3. The act of wandering; a ramble.

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Verb

rove

1. simple past tense of rive
2. simple past tense of reeve

Anagrams

• -vore, Over, Vore, over, over-, vore

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

rove

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of roven

Anagrams

• over, Voer, voer

Finnish

Noun

rove

1. Small container made of birch bark.

Declension

Synonyms

• tuokkonen

Anagrams

• vero

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.