reve

English

Noun

reve (plural reves)

1. Obsolete form of reeve.

Galician

Verb

reve

1. inflection of rever:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French rêver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣeve/

Verb

reve

1. dream

Mbyá Guaraní

Postposition

reve

1. with, accompanied by

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English rēfa, ġerēfa, from Proto-West Germanic *garāfijō. Doublet of greyve.

Alternative forms

• refe, reeve, reyve, reove

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreːv(ə)/

Noun

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;

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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?)

Related terms

• shirreve

Descendants

• English: reeve

References

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

Etymology 2

Verb

reve

1. Alternative form of reven

Etymology 3

Noun

reve

1. Alternative form of reif

Middle French

Alternative forms

• resve

Etymology

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

Noun

reve f (plural reves)

1. a taxation on imports and exports

References

• 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)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the noun rev.

Verb

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.

References

• “reve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old High German

Etymology

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Noun

reve

1. womb