rive

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ɹaɪv/

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• Rhymes: -aɪv

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 *(e)reip- (“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”) and Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”). More at rift.

rive (third-person singular simple present rives, present participle riving, simple past rived or rove, past participle rived or riven)

1. (transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks […]

2. (transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter 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 body

3. (intransitive) To break apart; to split.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, II.vi:

     The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue […].

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Woodward

     Freestone rives, splits, and breaks in any direction.

   • 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.

4. (transitive, rare) 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 artillery

5. (woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).

• (to rend asunder): cleave, rend, split

• rip
• rib

rive (plural rives)

1. A place torn; a rent; a rift.

• (a place torn): rent, rift

rive (plural rives)

1. A bank or shore.

rive

1. To land.

• Iver, iver, vier, vire

From Old Norse hrífa.

• IPA^(key): /riːvə/, [ˈʁiːwə]

rive c (singular definite riven, plural indefinite river)

1. rake

From Old Norse rífa, from Proto-Germanic *rīfaną.

• IPA^(key): /riːvə/, [ˈʁiːwə]

rive (imperative riv, infinitive at rive, present tense river, past tense rev, perfect tense har revet)

1. rake
2. grate
3. scratch, tear, rip

Probably from Swedish drev.

• IPA^(key): /ˈriʋeˣ/, [ˈriʋe̞(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: ri‧ve

rive

1. oakum, tow

• tervarive

• revi, veri, vire

From Old French, from Latin rīpa, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to cut, tear, scratch”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁiv/

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rive f (plural rives)

1. bank (of a river)

• arriver
• dériver
• rivage
• rivière

• “rive” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• ivre, vire, viré

From Latin rīpa.

rive f (plural rivis)

1. slope, ascent
2. shore

• rivâ
• riviere

From French arriver (“happen”)

rive

1. happen

• Rhymes: -ive

rive f

1. plural of riva

• veri

rīve

1. vocative singular of rīvus

• rive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

From Old Norse hrífa.

• IPA^(key): /riːvə/

rive f or m (definite singular riva or riven, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)

1. a rake (garden and agricultural tool)

From Old Norse rífa.

• IPA^(key): /riːvə/

rive (imperative riv, present tense river, passive rives, simple past rev or reiv, past participle revet, present participle rivende)

1. to grate + av
2. to scratch, tear, rip + av

• løsrive
• rivjern

• “rive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse hrífa.

rive f (definite singular riva, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)

1. a rake (garden and agricultural tool)

rive (present tense riv, past tense reiv, past participle rive, present participle rivande, imperative riv)

1. Alternative form of riva

• “rive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.