stive

== English == === Etymology 1 === Apparently from a Middle Dutch noun related to stuiven and cognate to German Staub (“dust”). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /staɪv/ ==== Noun ==== stive The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding. 1867, The British Farmer's Magazine, Volum LII, New Series, page 231, The removal of the heated air, steam, stive, and flour from the millstones, is a proposition which does not appear to be more than sufficiently well understood. ===== Derived terms ===== stive-box, stive-room === Etymology 2 === From Middle English stīven, alternative form of stūphen (“to steep (meat in a liquid)”), from Vulgar Latin *extuphāre, *extufāre, *extupāre, from ex- + Ancient Greek τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”). Compare Scots stove (“to stew”) (whence Irish stobh), Old French estuver (“to put into hot water”), and Dutch stoven (“to stew, simmer”). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /staɪv/ ==== Verb ==== stive (third-person singular simple present stives, present participle stiving, simple past and past participle stived) (UK, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To stew; to be stifled or suffocated. 1796, Amelia Simmons, American Cookery, 1996 Bicentennial Facsimile Edition, page 64, Let your cucumbers be ſmall, freſh gathered, and free from ſpots; then make a pickle of ſalt and water, ſtrong enough to bear an egg; boil the pickle and ſkim it well, and then pour it upon your cucumbers, and ſtive them down for twenty four hours; […] . ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== stive Obsolete form of stew. === Etymology 4 === Related to Italian stivàre, Portuguese estivar. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /staɪv/ ==== Verb ==== stive (third-person singular simple present stives, present participle stiving, simple past and past participle stived) (transitive) Sometimes with up: to compress (something); to cram. === References === === Anagrams === Vites == Danish == === Adjective === stive plural and definite singular attributive of stiv == Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsti.ve/ Rhymes: -ive Hyphenation: stì‧ve === Noun === stive f plural of stiva === Anagrams === vesti, vestì, viste == Middle English == === Adjective === stive alternative form of stif == Norwegian Bokmål == === Adjective === stive definite singular of stiv plural of stiv == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Adjective === stive definite singular of stiv plural of stiv