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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
reve (plural reves)
Galician[edit]
Verb[edit]
reve
- inflection of rever:
Haitian Creole[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
reve
Mbyá Guaraní[edit]
Postposition[edit]
reve
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English rēfa, ġerēfa, from Proto-West Germanic *garāfijō. Doublet of greyve.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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]
Alternative forms[edit]
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]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
reve
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