sive

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See also: sivé, sivè, Síve, and şive

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Swedish sipa and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sipōną (to trickle, flow).

Verb

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sive (imperative [please provide], infinitive at sive, present tense [please provide], past tense [please provide], perfect tense [please provide])

  1. flow slowly or slowly leak

Derived terms

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Ido

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin sive.

Pronunciation

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Conjunction

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sive

  1. either; whether

Antonyms

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  • nek (neither)

Derived terms

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  • sive ... sive
    whether … or; either … or

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From older seive, from sei (if) +‎ -ve (or). Equivalent to (if) +‎ -ve (or). Collateral form seu by apocope.

Pronunciation

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Conjunction

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sīve

  1. on the other hand; but if
  2. or
  3. whether … or … (sive … sive …)

Usage notes

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

Antonyms

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References

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  • 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
  • seu in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • sive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old English sife.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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sive (plural sives)

  1. sieve, riddle, sile (a device for sifting)
    Synonym: temse
  2. (rare) The amount that fits in a sieve.

Descendants

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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sive (present tense siv or siver, past tense seiv or sivde, supine sive or sivd/sivt, past participle siven or sivd, present participle sivande, imperative siv)

  1. (intransitive) to seep, ooze
  2. (intransitive) to leak

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Serbo-Croatian

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Adjective

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sive

  1. inflection of siv:
    1. masculine accusative plural
    2. feminine genitive singular
    3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Swazi

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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síve class 7 (plural tíve class 8)

  1. nation
  2. nationality
  3. foreigner

Inflection

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Tarantino

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Adjective

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sive

  1. dirty