Etymology of ravin

The source reports below are imported and unreviewed by *SET-U. Separate numbered origins and differing source variants are preserved; agreement within this extraction is not independent corroboration.

Unnumbered source etymology

Original entry ↗

adj

Ravenous.

verb

Sometimes followed by away or from: to obtain or seize (something, especially property) by force or violence; to plunder. · Sometimes followed by down, up, or (obsolete) in: to eat (something, such as food or prey) greedily; to devour, to wolf down. · To absorb or take in (something, such as information) greedily; also, to approach or pounce on (someone) like prey. · Followed by about, after, or for: to go after or seek for something, especially booty or spoils; to maraud, to plunder; also (generally), to move about wildly and cause damage; to rampage.

noun

Property obtained or seized by force or violence; booty, plunder, spoils. · Of a (predatory) animal: seizing or devouring of food or prey; predation. · Gluttony, greed, rapacity; also, the quality of being predatory; predatoriness. · A predatory animal; a predator.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

The noun is derived from Middle English ravin, ravine, raven (“rapine, robbery; rape; force, violence; greed, rapacity; stolen goods, booty, plunder; prey, quarry; pursuit of prey; predatoriness, voracity”), from Anglo-Norman ravein, raveine, ravine (“rapine, robbery; rape; force, violence; greed, rapacity; impetuousness; stolen goods”), Middle French ravine, and Old French ravine (“rapine, robbery; force, violence; impetuousness”), from Latin rapīna (“pillage, plunder, robbery, rapine; booty, plunder”), from rapiō (“to abduct, carry off; to grab, snatch; to rape; to steal”) (from Proto-Italic *rapjō (“to seize, take away”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rep- (“to snatch”)) + -īna (suffix forming abstract nouns). The adjective is derived from Middle English ravin, ravine (“predatory; ravenous”), from Middle English ravin, ravine (noun): see above. The verb is not attested before the 16th century, but words like Middle English raviner, ravinour (“plunderer; robber; rapist; predator”), ravening (“act of robbery; predatoriness, rapacity”, noun), and ravening, ravining (“(adjective) savage, ravening; (noun) preceded by ‘the’: the devil”) suggest that it existed in the 14th and 15th centuries, and was probably derived from the noun. Compare Middle French raviner (“to make furrows”), Old French raviner (“to take by force; to rush; to stream”) (modern French raviner).

Relationships mentioned by the source

These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.

Root classification mention*h₁rep-ine-pro
Inherited-form mentionravinenm
Derivation mentionravinefrm
Derivation mentionravinefro · rapine, robbery; force, violence; impetuousness
Derivation mentionrapīnala · pillage, plunder, robbery, rapine; booty, plunder
Derivation mention*rapjōitc-pro · to seize, take away
Derivation mention*h₁rep-ine-pro · to snatch
Cognate mentionravinerenm
Cognate mentionravinerfrm · to make furrows
Cognate mentionravinerfro · to take by force; to rush; to stream
Cognate mentionravinerfr

This page abbreviates 8 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.

Inspect preserved source fields

Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.

{
  "templates": [
    {
      "name": "root",
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₁rep-"
      },
      "expansion": ""
    },
    {
      "name": "lg",
      "args": {
        "1": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "noun"
    },
    {
      "name": "inh",
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "ravin"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English ravin"
    },
    {
      "name": "der",
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "xno",
        "3": "ravein"
      },
      "expansion": "Anglo-Norman ravein"
    },
    {
      "name": "der",
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "ravine"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French ravine"
    },
    {
      "name": "der",
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "ravine",
        "t": "rapine, robbery; force, violence; impetuousness"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French ravine (“rapine, robbery; force, violence; impetuousness”)"
    },
    {
      "name": "der",
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "rapīna",
        "t": "pillage, plunder, robbery, rapine; booty, plunder"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin rapīna (“pillage, plunder, robbery, rapine; booty, plunder”)"
    },
    {
      "name": "sup",
      "args": {
        "1": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "¹"
    },
    {
      "name": "der",
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*rapjō",
        "t": "to seize, take away"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *rapjō (“to seize, take away”)"
    },
    {
      "name": "der",
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₁rep-",
        "t": "to snatch"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₁rep- (“to snatch”)"
    },
    {
      "name": "lg",
      "args": {
        "1": "suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "name": "lg",
      "args": {
        "1": "abstract noun"
      },
      "expansion": "abstract noun"
    },
    {
      "name": "lg",
      "args": {
        "1": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "adjective"
    },
    {
      "name": "inh",
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "ravin"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English ravin"
    },
    {
      "name": "inh",
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "ravin"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English ravin"
    },
    {
      "name": "lg",
      "args": {
        "1": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "verb"
    },
    {
      "name": "cog",
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "raviner"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English raviner"
    },
    {
      "name": "cog",
      "args": {
        "1": "frm",
        "2": "raviner",
        "t": "to make furrows"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French raviner (“to make furrows”)"
    },
    {
      "name": "cog",
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "raviner",
        "t": "to take by force; to rush; to stream"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French raviner (“to take by force; to rush; to stream”)"
    },
    {
      "name": "cog",
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "raviner"
      },
      "expansion": "French raviner"
    }
  ],
  "links": [
    [
      "ravin",
      "ravin#Middle_English"
    ],
    [
      "ravine",
      "ravine#Middle_English"
    ],
    [
      "raven",
      "raven#Middle_English"
    ],
    [
      "ravein",
      "ravein#Old_French"
    ],
    [
      "raveine",
      "raveine#Old_French"
    ],
    [
      "ravine",
      "ravine#Old_French"
    ],
    [
      "ravine",
      "ravine#Middle_French"
    ],
    [
      "ravine",
      "ravine#Old_French"
    ],
    [
      "rapīna",
      "rapina#Latin"
    ],
    [
      "rapiō",
      "rapio#Latin"
    ],
    [
      "*rapjō",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/rapjō"
    ],
    [
      "*h₁rep-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₁rep-"
    ],
    [
      "-īna",
      "-ina#Latin"
    ],
    [
      "ravin",
      "ravin#Middle_English"
    ],
    [
      "ravine",
      "ravine#Middle_English"
    ],
    [
      "ravin",
      "ravin#Middle_English"
    ],
    [
      "ravine",
      "ravine#Middle_English"
    ],
    [
      "raviner",
      "raviner#Middle_English"
    ],
    [
      "ravinour",
      "ravinour#Middle_English"
    ],
    [
      "ravening",
      "ravening#Middle_English"
    ],
    [
      "ravening",
      "ravening#Middle_English"
    ],
    [
      "ravining",
      "ravining#Middle_English"
    ],
    [
      "raviner",
      "raviner#Middle_French"
    ],
    [
      "raviner",
      "raviner#Old_French"
    ],
    [
      "raviner",
      "raviner#French"
    ]
  ],
  "references": [],
  "descendants": [],
  "lexical": [
    {
      "pos": "adj",
      "glosses": [
        "Ravenous."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "literary",
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "recordId": "d0e6fa2e99d04c95879218810ec17fd955fd9757ef544c8040eb2baac05defb6",
      "rawRecordSha256": "5473996a5ddf37ff3f66f250282121d959474b1ae0c4cf35cded2c042d3a4d7a",
      "sourceRecordOrdinal": 1199368
    },
    {
      "pos": "verb",
      "glosses": [
        "Sometimes followed by away or from: to obtain or seize (something, especially property) by force or violence; to plunder.",
        "Sometimes followed by down, up, or (obsolete) in: to eat (something, such as food or prey) greedily; to devour, to wolf down.",
        "To absorb or take in (something, such as information) greedily; also, to approach or pounce on (someone) like prey.",
        "Followed by about, after, or for: to go after or seek for something, especially booty or spoils; to maraud, to plunder; also (generally), to move about wildly and cause damage; to rampage."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "literary",
        "transitive",
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "recordId": "f0d25657940679d6d4d150b3527eb416c58aab7e58306fb37c89ce4e39773ebd",
      "rawRecordSha256": "31fc6d96f49dc9ba157216fcacc8049e8080e5c509a846e27eff7458756c086e",
      "sourceRecordOrdinal": 1199369
    },
    {
      "pos": "noun",
      "glosses": [
        "Property obtained or seized by force or violence; booty, plunder, spoils.",
        "Of a (predatory) animal: seizing or devouring of food or prey; predation.",
        "Gluttony, greed, rapacity; also, the quality of being predatory; predatoriness.",
        "A predatory animal; a predator."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "countable",
        "literary",
        "uncountable",
        "figuratively",
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ],
      "recordId": "febc4a970f4e75e99d3e574eeb02cd0e9f474826837379bddb161cd97ef3d5b9",
      "rawRecordSha256": "214a7ebe155090ec7b5bc9910efd4bd9aa0b996326476b25e5bd5a1f01b9a5fd",
      "sourceRecordOrdinal": 1199367
    }
  ],
  "omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
    "templates": 0,
    "links": 0,
    "references": 0,
    "descendants": 0,
    "lexicalRecords": 0,
    "lexicalSenses": 8,
    "glosses": 0
  }
}

The source etymologies

Unnumbered source etymology

Relationships mentioned by the source

Where this record stops

Source and snapshot