rivière
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French rivière. Doublet of river and riviera.
Noun[edit]
rivière (plural rivières)
- A necklace of diamonds or other precious stones, especially one of several strings.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:riviere.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle French riviere, from Old French riviere, from Vulgar Latin *rīpāria (“riverbank, seashore, river”), from the feminine of Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from rīpa (“river bank”) (whence rive).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rivière f (plural rivières)
- a river (one that flows into a river, lake, bay, etc., but not into an ocean or sea)
Usage notes[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières
- perche de rivière
- porter de l’eau à la rivière
- Trois-Rivières
Descendants[edit]
- → English: rivière
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “rivière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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