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語源

From 古期英語 sife.

発音

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

名詞

sive (plural sives)

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

   Synonym: temse

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

派生した語

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

参照

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

語源

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

発音

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

接続詞

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 …)

使用する際の注意点

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

反意語

• nēve, neu

参照

• “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 (2003-2025), 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.