English

Verb

rive ‎(third-person singular simple present rives, present participle riving, simple past rived or rove, past participle rived or riven)

1. (transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
   • William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)

     I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks […]

2. (transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter vj, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:

     And therwith she toke the swerd from her loue that lay ded and fylle to the ground in a swowne / And whan she aroos she made grete dole out of mesure / the whiche sorowe greued Balyn passyngly sore / and he wente vnto her for to haue taken the swerd oute of her hād but […] sodenly she sette the pomell to the ground / and rofe her self thorow the body

3. (intransitive) To break apart; to split.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, II.vi:

     The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue […].

   • John Woodward (1665-1728)

     Freestone rives, splits, and breaks in any direction.

4. (transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
   • 1821, William Shakespeare, ‎James Boswell, ‎Richard Farmer, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare:

     Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament, To rive their dangerous artillery

5. (woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).

Synonyms

• (to rend asunder): cleave, rend, split

Translations

See also

• rip
• rib

Noun

rive ‎(plural rives)

1. A place torn; a rent; a rift.

Synonyms

• (a place torn): rent, rift

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrífa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riːvə/, [ˈʁiːwə]

Noun

rive c (singular definite riven, plural indefinite river)

1. rake

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rífa, from Proto-Germanic *rīfaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riːvə/, [ˈʁiːwə]

Verb

rive ‎(imperative riv, infinitive at rive, present tense river, past tense rev, perfect tense har revet)

1. rake
2. grate
3. scratch, tear, rip

French

Etymology

From Latin ripa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁiv/

Noun

rive f ‎(plural rives)

1. bank (of a river)

Related terms

• arriver

Anagrams

• ivre, vire, viré

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin ripa.

Noun

rive f ‎(plural rivis)

1. slope, ascent
2. shore

Related terms

• rivâ

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French arriver ‎(“happen”)

Verb

rive

1. happen

Italian

Noun

rive f

1. plural of riva

Anagrams

• veri

Latin

Noun

rīve

1. vocative singular of rīvus

References

• RIVE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrífa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riːvə/

Noun

rive f, m ‎(definite singular riva or riven, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)

1. a rake (garden and agricultural tool)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rífa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riːvə/

Verb

rive ‎(imperative riv, present tense river, passive rives, simple past rev or reiv, past participle revet, present participle rivende)

1. to grate
2. to scratch, tear, rip

Derived terms

• løsrive
• rivjern

References

• “rive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hrífa.

Noun

rive f ‎(definite singular riva, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)

1. a rake (garden and agricultural tool)

References

• “rive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.