shrive

Signification (Anglais)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.).
2. (transitive) To free from guilt, to absolve.
3. (transitive) To prescribe penance or absolution.
4. (intransitive, reflexive) To confess, and receive absolution.

Concepts

absoudre

confesser

Synonymes

confess

absolve

ordain

Traductions

إعترف

beichten

εξομολογούμαι

εξομολογώ

assolvere

confessare

absolver

confesar

itirafını dinleyip affetmek

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈʃɹaɪv/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: shryven

Hérité de ancien anglais: sċrīfan

Appartenant à frison occidental: skriuwe

Appartenant à bas-allemand: schrieven

Appartenant à néerlandais: schrijven

Appartenant à allemand: schreiben

Appartenant à danois: skrive

Appartenant à suédois: skriva

Appartenant à islandais: skrifa

In summary

From Middle English shryven, shriven, schrifen, from Old English sċrīfan (“1. to decree, pass judgement, prescribe, 3. (of a priest) to prescribe penance or absolution”), from Proto-West Germanic *skrīban, from late Proto-Germanic *skrībaną, a borrowing from Latin scrībō (“write”).
Compare West Frisian skriuwe (“to write”), Low German schrieven (“to write”), Dutch schrijven (“to write”), German schreiben (“to write”), Danish skrive (“to write”), Swedish skriva (“to write”), Icelandic skrifa (“to write”). More at scribe and scribble.