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reve (plural reves)

1. Obsolete form of reeve.

reve

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

From French rêver.

• IPA^(key): /ɣeve/

reve

1. to dream

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 169

reve

1. with, accompanied by

From Old English rēfa, ġerēfa, from Proto-West Germanic *garōfijō.

• refe, reeve, reyve, reove

• IPA^(key): /ˈreːv(ə)/

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;

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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?)

• shirreve

• English: reeve

• “rẹ̄ve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 1 May 2018.

reve

1. alternative form of reven

reve

1. alternative form of reif

• resve

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

reve f (plural reves)

1. a taxation on imports and exports

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “reve”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• reve on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

From the noun rev.

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. [2]

• “reve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Inherited from Latin rāpa pl.

reve oblique singular, f (oblique plural reves, nominative singular reve, nominative plural reves) (hapax legomenon)

1. turnip

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “rapum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10: R, page 69

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

reve

1. womb