Rive
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rive¹
- /ɹaɪv/ US, UK
Rhymes with -aɪv
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp-
Proto-Germanic *rīfaną
Old Norse rífabor.
Middle English riven
English rive
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.
verb rives · riving · rived · rove · rave
- To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks[…]
- To pierce or cleave with a weapon. 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 break apart; to split. The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue[…].
- To burst open; explode; discharge. Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament, To rive their dangerous artillery
- To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
noun rives
- A place torn; a rent; a rift.
rive²
- /ɹaɪv/ US, UK
Rhymes with -aɪv
Where it comes from
Compare Latin ripa (“shore”).
noun rives
- A bank or shore.
verb
- To land.
Rive³
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French Rive.
proper noun Rives
- A surname from French.
