quiver
see also: Quiver
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Quiver
Etymology
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see also: Quiver
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from odt cocar (source of Dutch koker, and cognate to Old English cocer), from Proto-West Germanic *kokar, said to be from xhc -, possibly from xgn-pro *kökexür; see there for more.
Nounquiver (plural quivers)
- (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i], line 271:
- Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 39:
- Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.
- (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
- He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.
- (obsolete) A vulva.
- (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
- (mathematics) A multidigraph.
- French: carquois
- German: Köcher
- Italian: faretra
- Portuguese: aljava, fáretra, carcás
- Russian: колча́н
- Spanish: aljaba, carcaj, goldre
- French: tremblement, frisson, frémissement (of a person, of a voice)
- Russian: дрожь
- Spanish: temblar, temblor
From Middle English quiver, cwiver, from Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic.
Adjectivequiver
- (archaic) Nimble, active.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii], line 281:
- [...] there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.
From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective.
Verbquiver (quivers, present participle quivering; simple past and past participle quivered)
- (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion.
- Synonyms: tremble, quake, shudder, shiver
- c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene iii], line 12:
- The birds chaunt melodie on euerie buſh,
The ſnakes[sic – meaning ſnake] lies rolled in the chearefull ſunne,
The greene leaues quiuer with the cooling winde,
And make a checkerd ſhadow on the ground: [...]
- 1851 November 13, Herman Melville, chapter 84, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC ↗, page 410 ↗:
- Next moment with a rapid, nameless impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale.
- 1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter VIII, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, →OCLC ↗, part III, page 300 ↗:
- And the moonlight on the Church seemed to shift and quiver—some pigeons perhaps had been disturbed up there.
- French: frémir
- German: flattern, zittern, zucken
- Italian: fremere
- Portuguese: tremer, estremecer
- Russian: дрожа́ть
- Spanish: temblar
Quiver
Etymology
Corruption of the French Cuivre, from cuivre ("copper").
Proper noun- Ellipsis of Quiver Creek A stream in Illinois, USA.
- A twp in Mason County, Illinois, named after Quiver Creek.
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