rive
EnglishEdit
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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)
- (transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:
- I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks […]
- (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
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- (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.
- (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
- 1821, William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Richard Farmer, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare:
- (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)
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Etymology 2Edit
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NounEdit
rive (plural rives)
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rive
- To land.
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DanishEdit
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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)
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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)
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FinnishEdit
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rive
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| 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)
- bank (of a river)
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Further readingEdit
- “rive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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FriulianEdit
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NounEdit
rive f (plural rivis)
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Haitian CreoleEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French arriver (“arrive”).
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rive
ItalianEdit
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rive f
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LatinEdit
NounEdit
rīve
ReferencesEdit
- rive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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rive f or m (definite singular riva or riven, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)
- a rake (garden and agricultural tool)
Etymology 2Edit
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VerbEdit
rive (imperative riv, present tense river, passive rives, simple past rev or reiv, past participle revet, present participle rivende)
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- “rive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
rive f (definite singular riva, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)
- a rake (garden and agricultural tool)
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VerbEdit
rive (present tense riv, past tense reiv, supine rive, past participle riven, present participle rivande, imperative riv)
- Alternative form of riva
ReferencesEdit
- “rive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.