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Vive vs Viva - What's the difference?

vive | viva |

Viva is a related term of vive.



As an adjective vive

is lively; animated; forcible.

As an interjection viva is

long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support).

As a verb viva is

to cheer, applaud.

As a noun viva is

an oral examination, typically for an academic qualification.

vive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) lively; animated; forcible
    • (Francis Bacon)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    viva

    English

    Etymology 1

    .

    Interjection

  • Long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support ).

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cheer, applaud
  • * 1841 , Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar, A winter in the Azores, and a summer at the baths of the Furnas
  • * 1859 , The Atlantic Monthly
  • * 1857 , George Payne R James, Leonora d'Orco

    • Etymology 2

    Shortened from (m), (etyl) for “live voice”

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An oral examination, typically for an academic qualification.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To subject to an examination of this kind.
  • * 1931 , Henry Sanderson Furniss Sanderson, Memories of sixty years
  • * 1972 , The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
  • * 2009 , Gianni Paganini, Jose Raimundo Maia Neto, Renaissance Scepticisms
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