sive

Borrowed from Latin sive.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ve/

sive

1. either; whether

• nek (“neither”)

1. sive ... sive

   whether … or; either … or

• sīue
• seu

From older seīve, from seī (“if”) +‎ -ve (“or”). Equivalent to sī (“if”) +‎ -ve (“or”). Collateral form seu by apocope.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.we/, [ˈsiː.wɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ve/, [ˈsiː.ve]

sīve

1. on the other hand; but if
2. or
   • 1731, Johann Jakob Brucker:

     Otium Vindelicum sive Meletematum Historico-philosophicorum Triga

     Augsburg Idleness, or, a Triga of Historico-Philosophical Essays

• May be used as a correlative, sive… sive… to function as in English either… or…

• nēve, neu

• sive in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sive in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

• syffe, sife, syfe, syve, cive, cyve, ceve

From Old English sife, from Proto-Germanic *sibi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiv(ə)/, /ˈseːv(ə)/, /ˈsif/, /ˈseːf/

sive (plural sives)

1. A sieve, riddle, or sile; a device for sifting.
2. (rare) The amount that fits in a sieve.

• English: sieve
• Scots: sieve, siffe, syffe, sif, syf

• “sive (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-19.

síve class 7 (plural tíve class 8)

1. nation
2. nationality
3. foreigner

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

sive

1. dirty