revere

From French révérer, from Latin re- + verērī, present infinitive of vereor (“to fear”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹə.viːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

revere (third-person singular simple present reveres, present participle revering, simple past and past participle revered)

1. (transitive) To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion.
2. (transitive, also religion) To honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g. a saint, or an idol

• respect
• venerate

• contemn
• despise

• reverence

revere (plural reveres)

1. a revers

• veerer

From Old English rēafere; equivalent to reven +‎ -er.

• rævere, reavere, reiver, reaferæ, reavar, revre, revar, revour, refar, reyvour, reyver, rever, ryver

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛːvər(ə)/

revere (plural reveres)

1. A robber or burglar; one who steals or thieves.
2. A reaver or looter.

• English: reaver
• Scots: refar (obsolete)

• “rēver(e, n.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-16.

From Anglo-Norman rivere.

revere

1. Alternative form of ryver