different between vives vs wives

English

Etymology

From Old French vives, French avives (compare Spanish abivas), from Arabic ???????? (?i?ba, literally “she-wolf”).

Noun

vives (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A disease of animals, especially horses, based in the glands under the ear, where a tumour is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.
   • 1816, Richard Lawrence, The complete farrier, and British sportsman (page 245)

     The Vives, like the strangles, is most incident to young horses, and usually proceeds from the same causes, such as catching cold, being over-heated, or over-worked, about the time of shedding their teeth.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?vi.v?s/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bi.b?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?vi.ves/

Adjective

vives f pl

1. feminine plural of viu

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viv/
• Homophones: vive, vivent

Adjective

vives f pl

1. feminine plural of vif

Verb

vives

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of vivre

Noun

vives f

1. plural of vive

Galician

Verb

vives

1. second-person singular present indicative of vivir

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i?.u?e?s/, [?u?i?u?e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.ves/, [?vi?v?s]

Verb

v?v?s

1. second-person singular future active indicative of v?v?

Portuguese

Verb

vives

1. second-person singular (tu) present indicative of viver

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bibes/, [?bi.??es]

Verb

vives

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present indicative form of vivir.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa?vz/

Noun

wives

1. plural of wife

Anagrams

• swive, views

Middle Dutch

Noun

wives

1. genitive singular of wijf

Middle English

Noun

wives

1. plural of wif