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vive

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See also: vivé and víve

English

WOTD – 23 November 2015

Etymology

From Latin vivus. Compare French vif. See vivid.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vaɪv/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -aɪv

Adjective

vive (comparative more vive, superlative most vive)

(obsolete) lively, animated^[1]
- 1890, Samuel Harvey Reynolds, Introduction The Essays of Francis Bacon
  the French King, when by a vive and forcible persuasion he moved him to a war upon Flanders

See also

vive la différence

References

^ “vive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Esperanto

Etymology

From vivi +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvive/
Rhymes: -ive
Hyphenation: vi‧ve

Adverb

vive

In a lively manner.
- 1891, L. L. Zamenhof, La batalo de l'vivo, translation of The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens:
  "Kaj tamen, Grace — fratino mi preskaŭ dirus."
  "Diru ĝin!" ŝi lin vive interrompis. "Mi aŭdas ĝin kun plezuro, neniam nomu min alie."
  "And yet, Grace - I'd almost say 'sister'."
  "Say it!" she interrupted him in a lively way. "I'm pleased to hear it, never call me otherwise."

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /viv/
Audio (Paris): (file)
Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)): (file)
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Homophone: vives

Adjective

vive f sg

feminine singular of vif

Verb

vive

inflection of vivre:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. first-person singular imperative
Vive moi! ― Yay for me!
1. third-person singular imperative of vivre
  Vive la France! ― Long live France!
2. second-person singular imperative of vivre^[1]
  Vive tu! ― Go you (singular)!
3. first-person plural imperative of vivre^[1]
  Vive nous! ― Yay for us!
4. second-person plural imperative of vivre^[1]
  Vive vous! ― Long live (you plural)!
5. third-person plural imperative of vivre^[2]
  Vive les femmes! ― Go women! Go girls!

Usage notes

When used as a general exclamation of honor, as in “Vive la France!” it is usually translated by “long live” in English. Cognate to Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese viva, of identical usage.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 The exclamatory usage of vive in the sense "long live [...]!"/"go [...]!"/"yay for [...]!" in reference to tu (second-person singular), nous (first-person plural) and vous (second-person plural) is an expansion of the third-person singular subjunctive/imperative. The correct imperative forms for these persons are vis (second-person singular), vivons (first-person plural) and vivez (second-person plural) respectively.
^ Note that in modern French vivent is no longer used for the third-person plural imperative; e.g. vive les vacances (“yay for vacations”).

Antonyms

à bas

Noun

vive f (plural vives)

(ichthyology) any of certain kind of fish, mostly in the family Trachinidae, but especially the sand tilefish (Malacanthus plumieri) or the Guinean weever (Trachinus armatus) From FishBase

Synonyms

(sand tilefish): malacanthe bleu, matajuel bleu, sans-culotte
(Guinean weever): vive guinéenne

Derived terms

Further reading

“vive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /biˈβɪ/

Verb

vive

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

Further reading

“vivir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Hungarian

Participle

vive

misspelling of víve

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ve/
Rhymes: -ive
Hyphenation: vì‧ve

Verb

vive

third-person singular present indicative of vivere

Adjective

vive f pl

feminine plural of vivo

Kabuverdianu

Alternative forms

bibu (Sotavento)

Etymology

From Portuguese vivo.

Adjective

vive

(Barlavento) alive, living

References

Gonçalves, Manuel (2015), Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
Veiga, Manuel (2012), Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

Latin

Verb

vīve

second-person singular present active imperative of vīvō

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

From French vivre (“to live”), compare Haitian Creole viv.

Verb

vive

to live

References

Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvive/

Verb

vive

to live

Derived terms

arvive

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.vi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ve/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.vɨ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.bɨ/ [ˈbi.βɨ]

Audio (Portugal (Porto)): (file)
Hyphenation: vi‧ve

Verb

vive

inflection of viver:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative
inflection of vivar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbibe/ [ˈbi.β̞e]
Rhymes: -ibe
Syllabification: vi‧ve

Verb

vive

inflection of vivar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative
inflection of vivir:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

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