different between tiver vs stiver

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English *tever, teapor, from Old English t?afor (“red, red lead, vermilion, purple; a material used in making salve; pigment, salve”), from Proto-Germanic *taubr? (“magic, sorcery”). Cognate with Dutch toverij (“sorcery, witchcraft”), German Zauber (“magic”), Icelandic töfrar (“magic, spells”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)

Noun

tiver

1. A kind of ochre used for marking sheep in some parts of England.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *teveren, from Old English t?ofrian, t?frian (“to mark in red or purple, colour; depict, portray”), from t?afor.

Verb

tiver (third-person singular simple present tivers, present participle tivering, simple past and past participle tivered)

1. (transitive) To mark with tiver, as sheep.

Anagrams

• Rivet, Vitré, rivet

Galician

Verb

tiver

1. first-person singular future subjunctive of ter
2. third-person singular future subjunctive of ter

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ti.?v??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t??i.?v?(?)/

Verb

tiver

1. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of ter
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of ter
3. (nonstandard) Alternative form of estiver

English

Etymology

From Dutch stuiver, cognate with Middle Low German stüver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta?v?/

Noun

stiver (plural stivers)

1. (historical, money) A small Dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder.
2. Anything of small value.
   • 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, vol. 4 (Penguin 2003, p. 223):

     ’Tis not worth a single stiver, said the bandy-leg'd drummer.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16

     [A]ll hands, including the captain, received certain shares of the profits called lays […] And though the 275th lay was what they call a rather long lay, yet it was better than nothing; and if we had a lucky voyage, might pretty nearly pay for the clothing I would wear out on it, not to speak of my three years' beef and board, for which I would not have to pay one stiver.

Translations

Anagrams

• Rivets, rivest, rivets, strive, tivers, verist

Danish

Noun

stiver c (singular definite stiveren, plural indefinite stivere)

1. brace, shore, prop
2. stanchion, pillar
3. rib, spoke
4. strut

Inflection