sive

Borrowed from Swedish sipa and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sipōną (“to trickle, flow”).

sive (imperative [please provide], infinitive at sive, present tense [please provide], past tense [please provide], perfect tense [please provide])

1. flow slowly or slowly leak

• sive ind

Learned borrowing from Latin sive.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ve/

sive

1. either; whether

• nek (“neither”)

• sive ... sive

  whether … or; either … or

• sīue
• seu

From older seive, from sei (“if”) +‎ -ve (“or”). Equivalent to sī (“if”) +‎ -ve (“or”). Collateral form seu by apocope.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.u̯e/, [ˈs̠iːu̯ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ve/, [ˈsiːve]

sīve

1. on the other hand; but if
2. 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

3. whether … or … (sive … sive …)

• May be used as a correlative, sive… sive… to function as in English whether… or…

• nēve, neu

• “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.

• ceve, cive, cyve, sife, syfe, syffe, syve

From Old English sife.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiv(ə)/, /ˈseːv(ə)/, /ˈsif/, /ˈseːf/

sive (plural sives)

1. sieve, riddle, sile (a device for sifting)

   Synonym: temse

2. (rare) The amount that fits in a sieve.

• English: sieve
• Scots: sieve, siffe, syffe, sif, syf

• “sive, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-19.

• siva (a infinitive)

sive (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)

1. (intransitive) to seep, ooze
2. (intransitive) to leak

• “sive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

sive

1. inflection of siv:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

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

síve class 7 (plural tíve class 8)

1. nation
2. nationality
3. foreigner

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

sive

1. dirty