reve
Mbyá Guaraní
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English rēfa, ġerēfa, from Proto-West Germanic *garāfijō. Doublet of greyve.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈreːv(ə)/
Noun
- 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;
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue to the Reves Tale, 1915, The College Chaucer, page 94,
- An administrator of an estate or manor; a manager or steward.
- (Christianity) A subordinate or deputy of God.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)
Related terms
Descendants
- English: reeve
References
- “rẹ̄ve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-01.
Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Old French rueve, ultimately from Latin rogō (“I ask; I demand”)[1].
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “rogāre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10: R, page 445
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (reve)
- reve on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From the noun rev.
Old High German
Etymology
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