reve

From French rêver.

reve

1. dream

From Old English rēfa, from ġerēfa, potentially from Proto-Germanic *grēfijô.

• refe, reeve, reyve, reove

• IPA^(key): /ˈreːv(ə)/

reve (plural reves or reven)

1. 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;

2. An administrator of an estate or manor; a manager or steward.
3. (Christianity) A subordinate or deputy of God.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)

• shirreve

• English: reeve

• “rẹ̄ve (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-01.

From Old English rēafian.

reve

1. Alternative form of reven

From Old English rēaf.

reve

1. Alternative form of reif

• resve

Old French rueve, ultimately from Latin rogō (“I ask; I demand”)[1].

reve f (plural reves)

1. a taxation on imports and exports

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (reve)
• reve on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)

From the noun rev

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)

1. (nautical) to reef (a sail)
   • "Rev seilene, rev seilene!", skrek kapteinen.

• “reve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.