rivière
French
noun
Definitions
- a river (a river that flows into another river; a river that flows into an ocean or sea is called a fleuve)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French riviere inherited from Old French riviere (idem) inherited from Latin *rīpāria, rīpārius (of a riverbank, riparian, relating to a riverbank) derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (tear, scratch, cut, rip, peel off, strip, strap, break).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁reyp-
Gloss
tear, scratch, cut, rip, peel off, strip, strap, break
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
泪, 涙
Emoji
🤣 💧 😂 😢 😭 😹 😿 🥲
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Trois-Rivières English
- riparian English
- riverain English
- rivière English
- *rīpāria Latin
- riparia Latin
- rīpa Latin
- rīpārius Latin
- Revier German
- Revierkampf German
- ripario Italian
- riviera Italian
- Trois-Rivières French
- fr French
- m French
- riverain French
- rivières French
- trois French
- ribera Spanish, Castilian
- ribereño Spanish, Castilian
- ἐρείπω Ancient Greek
- *h₁reyp- Proto-Indo-European
- *rey- Proto-Indo-European
- ribeira Portuguese
- ribeiro Portuguese
- *raipaz Proto-Germanic
- revír Czech
- riviere Old French
- ribera Catalan, Valencian
- ribeira Galician
- riveran Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- الیف Persian
- riviere Middle Dutch
- revir Turkish
- riviéthe Norman
- riviere Middle High German
- riviere Middle French
- ribeira Old Portuguese
- rivere xno
- *raupā Proto-Albanian
- rivyè Haitian, Haitian Creole
- ribera Kabuverdianu
- larivyer Mauritian Creole
- larivyer Seychellois Creole