lives
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Etymology 1 edit
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lives
- third-person singular simple present indicative of live
Etymology 2 edit
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lives
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Latin edit
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līvēs
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Etymology edit
From Old English līfes (“alive”), itself from the genitive singular of līf (“life”). For the use of the genitive in forming adverbs from nouns compare evenings (“in the evening”). More at -s (etymology 3).
Adjective edit
lives
- alive, living
- Antonym: dethes
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 901-903:
- Hir fader, that this tidinge herd anon,
Curseth the day and time that Nature
Shoop him to been a lives creature.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- lively, happy
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lives