Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

todrive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: to-drive
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Swift was the flight todriven; The Hord lord singed houses."

Etymology

From Middle English todriven, from Old English tōdrīfan (“to drive away, repel”), from Proto-Germanic *tōdrībaną (“to drive apart”), equivalent to to- + drive. Cognate with Old Frisian todrīva, Middle High German zetrīben (“to drive asunder”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Prefix: to
Root: todriven, tōdrīfan, *tōdrībaną

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

todrives (present, singular) todriving (participle, present) todrove (past) todriven (participle, past)

Questions

What does todrive mean?: To scatter.
Where does todrive come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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