sive

See also: Síve and şive

Danish

Verb

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

• sive ind

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ve/

Conjunction

sive

1. either; whether

Antonyms

• nek (“neither”)

Derived terms

1. sive ... sive

   whether … or; either … or

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Latin

Alternative forms

• sīue
• seu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.u̯e/, [ˈs̠iːu̯ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ve/, [ˈsiːve]

Conjunction

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

Usage notes

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

Antonyms

• nēve, neu

References

• “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 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.

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Middle English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sive (plural sives)

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

Descendants

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

References

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

sive

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

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Swazi

Etymology

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Noun

síve class 7 (plural tíve class 8)

1. nation
2. nationality
3. foreigner

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Tarantino

Adjective

sive

1. dirty