reve – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of reve

Noun: reve
Sg.reve
Pl.reves; reven

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • 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))

Etymology

From Old English rēfa, ġerēfa, from Proto-West Germanic *garōfijō. See: Old English Nouns 'rēfa'.

Verbs referencing "reve"

English Nouns reeve.

Translations