reve

See also: revé, rêve, rêvé, and revê

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French rêver.

Verb

reve

1. dream

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Middle English

Etymology 1

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

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;

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

From Old English rēafian.

Verb

reve

1. Alternative form of reven

Etymology 3

From Old English rēaf.

Noun

reve

1. Alternative form of reif

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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)

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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. [1]

References

• “reve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.