riva

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riva

1. A rift or cleft.

• Ravi, Viar, vair, vari, vira

riva

1. third-person singular past historic of river

• ravi, vair, vira, vrai

• ripa (dated, regional, or literary)

From Latin rīpa, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to tear, cut”). Doublet of ripa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈri.va/
• Rhymes: -iva
• Hyphenation: rì‧va

riva f (plural rive)

1. bank, shore

• riviera

• vari, vira

rīvā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of rīvō

• riva 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)

• riven

riva m or f

1. definite feminine singular of rive

• IPA^(key): /²riːʋɑ/

riva f

1. definite singular of rive

From Old Norse rífa, hrífa.

• rive (e and split infinitives)

riva (present tense riv, past tense reiv, supine rive, past participle riven, present participle rivande, imperative riv)

1. to tear

   Ho reiv opp konvolutten.

   She tore the envelope open.

2. to grate

   Riv litt ost på toppen.

   Grate some cheese on top.

3. to demolish

   Me skal riva dette huset.

   We are going to demolish this house.

• “riva” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse rífa, from Proto-Germanic *rīfaną.

riva

1. to tear, rend
2. to devour
3. to plunder

• Swedish: riva

riva

1. good

From Old Norse hrífa.

• IPA^(key): [ʁèɪʋa]

riva f

1. a rake

Compare Latin ripa (“bank, shore, coast”).

riva f (Cyrillic spelling рива)

1. bank, shore

• rivijera

From Old Swedish rīva, from Old Norse rífa, from Proto-Germanic *rīfaną.

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riva (present river, preterite rev, supine rivit, imperative riv)

1. to tear, to rip
2. to grate
3. to scratch, especially as hard as to make marks
4. to destruct (a building)

• (scratch): klia, skrapa

• rivig

• avrivning
• nedriva
• riva av
• riva isär
• riva itu
• rivning
• uppriva

• Ivar, vari, vira

From English river.

riva

1. river