See also: Rive and rivé

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English riven (to rive), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse rífa (to rend, tear apart), from Proto-Germanic *rīfaną (to tear, scratch), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (to crumble, tear).

Cognate with Danish rive (to tear), Old Frisian rīva (to tear), Old English ārǣfan (to let loose, unwrap), Old Norse ript (breach of contract, rift), Norwegian Bokmål rive (to tear), Swedish riva (”to tear”) and Albanian rrip (belt, rope). More at rift.

VerbEdit

rive (third-person singular simple present rives, present participle riving, simple past rived or rove or rave, past participle rived or riven)

  1. (transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:
      And therwith she toke the swerd from her loue that lay ded and fylle to the ground in a swowne / And whan she aroos she made grete dole out of mesure / the whiche sorowe greued Balyn passyngly sore / and he wente vnto her for to haue taken the swerd oute of her hād but [] sodenly she sette the pomell to the ground / and rofe her self thorow the body
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  3. (intransitive) To break apart; to split.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
      The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue [].
    • 1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England
      Freestone i.e. that rives, splits, and breaks in any direction.
    • 2012, David W. Phillipson, Foundations of an African Civilisation. Aksum & the northern Horn, 1000 BC–AD 1300, Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, page 10:
      To the west, the country descends more gradually to the extensive plains of the Nile Valley but is riven by the rugged valleys of the Takezze and other Nile tributaries.
    • 2021 October 20, Angie Doll explains to Paul Clifton, “We were absolutely at rock bottom...”, in RAIL, number 942, page 34:
      The company was riven by strikes. Years later, the dispute with the RMT union over driver operation of train doors has still not formally been resolved.
  4. (transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
    • 1821, William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Richard Farmer, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare:
      Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament, To rive their dangerous artillery
  5. (woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
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NounEdit

rive (plural rives)

  1. A place torn; a rent; a rift.
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Etymology 2Edit

Compare Latin ripa (shore)

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NounEdit

rive (plural rives)

  1. A bank or shore.

VerbEdit

rive

  1. To land.

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DanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /riːvə/, [ˈʁiːʋə], [ˈʁiːʊ]

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse hrífa, derived from the verb Old Norse hrífa (to grip), from Proto-Germanic *hrībaną (to grip, snatch).

NounEdit

rive c (singular definite riven, plural indefinite river)

  1. rake
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Etymology 2Edit

From Old Norse rífa, from Proto-Germanic *rīfaną, cognate with Swedish riva, English rive. In the sense, "to rake", it is derived from the noun.

VerbEdit

rive (past tense rev, past participle revet, common gender attributive reven, plural or definite attributive revne)

  1. to grate
  2. to scratch, tear, rip
  3. to rake
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FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Probably from Swedish drev.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈriʋeˣ/, [ˈriʋe̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -iʋe
  • Syllabification(key): ri‧ve

NounEdit

rive

  1. oakum, tow

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of rive (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation)
nominative rive riveet
genitive riveen riveiden
riveitten
partitive rivettä riveitä
illative riveeseen riveisiin
riveihin
singular plural
nominative rive riveet
accusative nom. rive riveet
gen. riveen
genitive riveen riveiden
riveitten
partitive rivettä riveitä
inessive riveessä riveissä
elative riveestä riveistä
illative riveeseen riveisiin
riveihin
adessive riveellä riveillä
ablative riveeltä riveiltä
allative riveelle riveille
essive riveenä riveinä
translative riveeksi riveiksi
instructive rivein
abessive riveettä riveittä
comitative riveineen
Possessive forms of rive (type hame)
possessor singular plural
1st person riveeni riveemme
2nd person riveesi riveenne
3rd person riveensä

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French, from Latin rīpa, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (to cut, tear, scratch).

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NounEdit

rive f (plural rives)

  1. bank (of a river)

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FriulianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin rīpa.

NounEdit

rive f (plural rivis)

  1. slope, ascent
  2. shore

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Haitian CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French arriver (arrive).

VerbEdit

rive

  1. to arrive, to get to
  2. to happen

ItalianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈri.ve/
  • Rhymes: -ive
  • Syllabification: rì‧ve

NounEdit

rive f

  1. plural of riva

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LatinEdit

NounEdit

rīve

  1. vocative singular of rīvus

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse hrífa.

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NounEdit

rive f or m (definite singular riva or riven, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)

  1. a rake (garden and agricultural tool)

Etymology 2Edit

From Old Norse rífa.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

rive (imperative riv, present tense river, passive rives, simple past rev or reiv, past participle revet, present participle rivende)

  1. to grate + av
  2. to scratch, tear, rip + av
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Norwegian NynorskEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse hrífa.

NounEdit

rive f (definite singular riva, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)

  1. a rake (garden and agricultural tool)

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

rive (present tense riv, past tense reiv, supine rive, past participle riven, present participle rivande, imperative riv)

  1. Alternative form of riva

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