rive
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#RIVECategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁reyp-#RIVEFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#RIVE riven (“to rive”), of North GermanicCategory:English terms derived from North Germanic languages#RIVE origin, from Old NorseCategory:English terms derived from Old Norse#RIVE rífa (“to rend, tear apart”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#RIVE *rīfaną (“to tear, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#RIVE *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.
Verb
rive (third-person singular simple present rives, present participle riving, simple past rived or rove or rave, past participle rived or rove or rave or riven)Category:English lemmas#RIVECategory:English verbs#RIVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#RIVE, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#RIVE 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, [Act I, scene iii]:
- I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks […]Category:English terms with quotations#RIVE
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#RIVE, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#RIVE) 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 bodyCategory:Middle English terms with quotations#RIVECategory:Requests for translations of Middle English quotations#RIVE
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- 1924, Lord Dunsany, chapter III, in The King of Elfland's Daughter, New York: G.P. Puttnam's Sons, page 30:
- And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts [...] and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow like that of a thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him.Category:English terms with quotations#RIVE
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#RIVE) To break apart; to split.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue […].Category:English terms with quotations#RIVE
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#RIVE
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#RIVE
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#RIVE
- 2023 September 12, Patrick Wintour, “‘Disastrous beyond comprehension’: 10,000 missing after Libya floods”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Oil-rich Libya has been riven by political infighting, corruption and external interference since a 2011 uprising that toppled and later led to the death of the longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi.Category:English terms with quotations#RIVE
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#RIVE, rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#RIVE) 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 artilleryCategory:English terms with quotations#RIVE
- (woodworkingCategory:en:Woodworking#RIVE) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
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Derived terms
Translations
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Noun
rive (plural rives)Category:English lemmas#RIVECategory:English nouns#RIVECategory:English countable nouns#RIVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
Synonyms
Etymology 2
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Noun
rive (plural rives)Category:English lemmas#RIVECategory:English nouns#RIVECategory:English countable nouns#RIVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
Verb
riveCategory:English lemmas#RIVECategory:English verbs#RIVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
- To land.
Anagrams
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /riːvə/, [ˈʁiːʋə], [ˈʁiːʊ]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#RIVE
Etymology 1
From Old NorseCategory:Danish terms derived from Old Norse#RIVE hrífa, derived from the verb Old NorseCategory:Danish terms derived from Old Norse#RIVE hrífa (“to grip”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic#RIVE *hrībaną (“to grip, snatch”).
Noun
rive c (singular definite riven, plural indefinite river)Category:Danish lemmas#RIVECategory:Danish nouns#RIVECategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:Danish common-gender nouns#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
Declension
Etymology 2
From Old NorseCategory:Danish terms derived from Old Norse#RIVE rífa, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic#RIVE *rīfaną, cognate with Swedish riva, English rive. In the sense, "to rake", it is derived from the noun.
Verb
rive (past tense rev, past participle revet, common gender attributive reven, plural or definite attributive revne)Category:Danish lemmas#RIVECategory:Danish verbs#RIVECategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
Conjugation
Finnish
Etymology
Probably from SwedishCategory:Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish#RIVECategory:Finnish terms derived from Swedish#RIVE drev.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈriʋeˣ/, [ˈriʋe̞(ʔ)]Category:Finnish 2-syllable words#RIVECategory:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#RIVE
- Rhymes: -iʋeCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/iʋe#RIVECategory:Rhymes:Finnish/iʋe/2 syllables#RIVE
- Syllabification(key): ri‧ve
- Hyphenation(key): ri‧ve
Noun
riveCategory:Finnish lemmas#RIVECategory:Finnish nouns#RIVECategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
Declension
| 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 | |
| abessive | riveettä | riveittä | |
| instructive | — | rivein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#RIVECategory:French terms derived from Old French#RIVE, from LatinCategory:French terms inherited from Latin#RIVECategory:French terms derived from Latin#RIVE rīpa, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#RIVE *rey- (“to cut, tear, scratch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁiv/Category:French 1-syllable words#RIVECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#RIVE
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Noun
rive f (plural rives)Category:French lemmas#RIVECategory:French nouns#RIVECategory:French countable nouns#RIVECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:French feminine nouns#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
Related terms
Further reading
- “rive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
Category:fr:Landforms#RIVEFriulian
Etymology
From LatinCategory:Friulian terms inherited from Latin#RIVECategory:Friulian terms derived from Latin#RIVE rīpa.
Noun
rive f (plural rivis)Category:Friulian lemmas#RIVECategory:Friulian nouns#RIVECategory:Friulian entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:Friulian feminine nouns#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
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Haitian Creole
Etymology
From FrenchCategory:Haitian Creole terms derived from French#RIVE arriver (“arrive”).
Pronunciation
Verb
riveCategory:Haitian Creole lemmas#RIVECategory:Haitian Creole verbs#RIVECategory:Haitian Creole entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
rive fCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#RIVECategory:Italian noun forms#RIVECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
rīveCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#RIVECategory:Latin noun forms#RIVECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
References
- "rive", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old NorseCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse#RIVE hrífa.
Pronunciation
Noun
rive f or m (definite singular riva or riven, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)Category:Norwegian Bokmål lemmas#RIVECategory:Norwegian Bokmål nouns#RIVECategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:Norwegian Bokmål feminine nouns#RIVECategory:Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns#RIVECategory:Norwegian Bokmål nouns with multiple genders#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
- a rake (garden and agricultural tool)
Etymology 2
From Old NorseCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse#RIVE rífa.
Pronunciation
Verb
rive (imperative riv, present tense river, passive rives, simple past rev or reiv, past participle revet, present participle rivende)Category:Norwegian Bokmål lemmas#RIVECategory:Norwegian Bokmål verbs#RIVECategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
Derived terms
References
- “rive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old NorseCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse#RIVE hrífa.
Noun
rive f (definite singular riva, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#RIVECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk nouns#RIVECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
- a rake (garden and agricultural tool)
Etymology 2
Verb
rive (present tense riv, past tense reiv, supine rive, past participle riven, present participle rivande, imperative riv)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#RIVECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk verbs#RIVECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk strong verbs#RIVECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk class 1 strong verbs#RIVECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#RIVECategory:Pages with entries#RIVECategory:Pages with 10 entries#RIVE
- alternative form of riva
References
- “rive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.