reve
English edit
Noun edit
reve (plural reves)
Galician edit
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reve
- inflection of rever:
Haitian Creole edit
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reve
Mbyá Guaraní edit
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reve
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English rēfa, ġerēfa, from Proto-West Germanic *garāfijō. Doublet of greyve.
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Noun edit
- 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;
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue to the Reves Tale, 1915, The College Chaucer, page 94,
- An administrator of an estate or manor; a manager or steward.
- (Christianity) A subordinate or deputy of God.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: reeve
References edit
- “rẹ̄ve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-01.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
reve
- Alternative form of reven
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
reve
- Alternative form of reif
Middle French edit
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Etymology edit
Old French rueve, ultimately from Latin rogō (“I ask; I demand”).[1]
Noun edit
reve f (plural reves)
References edit
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “rogāre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10: R, page 445
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (reve)
- reve on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From the noun rev.
Verb edit
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)
References edit
- “reve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old High German edit
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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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reve