# sive
## Danish
### Etymology

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

### Verb

sive (imperative [please provide], infinitive at sive, present tense [please provide], past tense [please provide], perfect tense [please provide])
* flow slowly or slowly leak

#### Derived terms

* sive ind

## Ido
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sive.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsi.ve/

### Conjunction

sive
* either; whether

#### Antonyms

* nek (“neither”)

#### Derived terms

* sive ... sive
    whether … or; either … or

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* seu

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Conjunction

sīve
* on the other hand; but if
* or
** 1677, Baruch Spinoza, Ethics:deus sive naturagod or nature
** 1731, Johann Jakob Brucker, (Please provide the book title or journal name):Otium Vindelicum sive Meletematum Historico-philosophicorum TrigaAugsburg Idleness, or, a Triga of Historico-Philosophical Essays
* whether … or … (sive … sive …)

#### Usage notes

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

#### Antonyms

* nēve, neu

### References

* “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.

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* syve
* syfe, syffe (Northern)
* ceve, cyve, seve (Late Middle English)
* sife (Early Middle English)

### Etymology

From Old English sife, from Proto-West Germanic *sibi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsiv(ə)/, (Late Middle English also) /ˈseːv(ə)/

### Noun

sive (plural sives)
* sieve, riddle, sile (a device for sifting)
    Synonym: temse
* (rare) The amount that fits in a sieve.

#### Descendants

* English: sieve
* Middle Scots: siffe, syffe, sif, syf
** Scots: sieve

#### References

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

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* siva (a infinitive)

### Verb

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)
* (intransitive) to seep, ooze
* (intransitive) to leak

### References

* “sive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Adjective

sive
* inflection of siv:
** masculine accusative plural
** feminine genitive singular
** feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Swazi
### Etymology

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### Noun

síve class 7 (plural tíve class 8)
* nation
* nationality
* foreigner

#### Inflection

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## Tarantino
### Adjective

sive
* dirty