sive
Danish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Swedish sipa and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sipōną (“to trickle, flow”).
Verb
editsive (imperative [please provide], infinitive at sive, present tense [please provide], past tense [please provide], perfect tense [please provide])
Derived terms
editIdo
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin sive.
Pronunciation
editConjunction
editsive
Antonyms
edit- nek (“neither”)
Derived terms
edit- sive ... sive
- whether … or; either … or
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom older seive, from sei (“if”) -ve (“or”). Equivalent to sī (“if”) -ve (“or”). Collateral form seu by apocope.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsiː.u̯e/, [ˈs̠iːu̯ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ve/, [ˈsiːve]
Conjunction
editsīve
- on the other hand; but if
- or
- 1677, Baruch Spinoza, Ethics:
- deus sive natura
- god or nature
- 1731, Johann Jakob Brucker, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Otium Vindelicum sive Meletematum Historico-philosophicorum Triga
- Augsburg Idleness, or, a Triga of Historico-Philosophical Essays
- whether … or … (sive … sive …)
Usage notes
editAntonyms
editReferences
edit- “sive”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sive”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- seu in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- sive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old English sife.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsive (plural sives)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “sive, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-19.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editAlternative forms
edit- siva (a infinitive)
Verb
editsive (present tense siv or siver, past tense seiv or sivde, supine sive or sivd/sivt, past participle siven or sivd, present participle sivande, imperative siv)
- (intransitive) to seep, ooze
- (intransitive) to leak
References
edit- “sive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
editAdjective
editsive
- inflection of siv:
Swazi
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
editsíve class 7 (plural tíve class 8)
Inflection
editThis noun needs an inflection-table template.
Tarantino
editAdjective
editsive
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