Middle English

Noun

reve (plural reves)

1. A reeve (local official).

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)

   • 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;

Middle French

Alternative forms

• resve

Etymology

Old French rueve, ultimately from Latin rogō ‎(“I ask; I demand”)^[1].

Noun

reve f (plural reves)

1. a taxation on imports and exports

References

1. ↑ (fr)(de) rogāre in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Walther von Wartburg, 2002)

• (fr) 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.