sive

Danish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Swedish sipa and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sipōną (“to trickle, flow”).

Verb edit

sive (imperative [please provide], infinitive at sive, present tense [please provide], past tense [please provide], perfect tense [please provide])

flow slowly or slowly leak

Derived terms edit

sive ind

Ido edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin sive.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ve/

Conjunction edit

sive

either; whether

Antonyms edit

nek (“neither”)

Derived terms edit

sive ... sive
whether … or; either … or

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

sīue
seu

Etymology edit

From older seive, from sei (“if”) +‎ -ve (“or”). Equivalent to sī (“if”) +‎ -ve (“or”). Collateral form seu by apocope.

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.u̯e/, [ˈs̠iːu̯ɛ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ve/, [ˈsiːve]

Conjunction edit

sīve

on the other hand; but if
or
- 1677, Baruch Spinoza, Ethics:
  deus sive natura
  god or nature
- 1731, Johann Jakob Brucker, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
  Otium Vindelicum sive Meletematum Historico-philosophicorum Triga
  Augsburg Idleness, or, a Triga of Historico-Philosophical Essays
whether … or … (sive … sive …)

Usage notes edit

May be used as a correlative, sive… sive… to function as in English whether… or…

Antonyms edit

nēve, neu

References edit

“sive”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“sive”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
seu in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
sive 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)
sive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English edit

Alternative forms edit

ceve, cive, cyve, sife, syfe, syffe, syve

Etymology edit

From Old English sife.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈsiv(ə)/, /ˈseːv(ə)/, /ˈsif/, /ˈseːf/

Noun edit

sive (plural sives)

sieve, riddle, sile (a device for sifting)
Synonym: temse
(rare) The amount that fits in a sieve.

Descendants edit

English: sieve
Scots: sieve, siffe, syffe, sif, syf

References edit

“sive, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-19.

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Alternative forms edit

siva (a infinitive)

Verb edit

sive (present tense siv or siver, past tense seiv or sivde, supine sive or sivd/sivt, past participle siven or sivd, present participle sivande, imperative siv)