Etymology

From Anglo-NormanCategory:English terms derived from Anglo-Norman#RIVAGE rivageCategory:English undefined derivations#RIVAGE, Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#RIVAGE rivageCategory:English undefined derivations#RIVAGE, from Late LatinCategory:English terms derived from Late Latin#RIVAGE rīpāticum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪvɪdʒ/Category:English 2-syllable words#RIVAGECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#RIVAGE

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Noun

rivage (countable and uncountable, plural rivages)Category:English lemmas#RIVAGECategory:English nouns#RIVAGECategory:English uncountable nouns#RIVAGECategory:English countable nouns#RIVAGECategory:English countable nouns#RIVAGECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RIVAGECategory:Pages with entries#RIVAGECategory:Pages with 3 entries#RIVAGE

1. (now rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#RIVAGE, poeticCategory:English poetic terms#RIVAGE) A coast, a shore.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:

     Ryght soo departed Galahad / Percyual / and Bors with hym / and soo they rode thre dayes / and thenne they came to a Ryuage and fonde the shyp […] / And whanne they cam to the borde / they fonde in the myddes the table of syluer / whiche they had lefte with the maymed kynge and the Sancgreal whiche was couerd with rede samyte

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   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Pactolus with his waters shere
     Throwes forth upon the rivage

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   • 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, part V, page 25:

     From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical, […]

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   • 1892, Michael Field, The Death of Procris:

     […] leaves have taken flight
     From yon
     Slim seedling-birch on the rivage, the flock
     Of herons has the quiet of solitude […]

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2. (lawCategory:en:Law#RIVAGE, UKCategory:British English#RIVAGE, historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#RIVAGE) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.

Anagrams

• Argive, virgae

Etymology

Inherited from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#RIVAGECategory:French terms derived from Old French#RIVAGE rivage, from Late LatinCategory:French terms inherited from Late Latin#RIVAGECategory:French terms derived from Late Latin#RIVAGE rīpāticum. Equivalent to by surface analysis, rive +‎ -ageCategory:French terms suffixed with -age#RIVAGE.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.vaʒ/Category:French 2-syllable words#RIVAGECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#RIVAGE

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Homophone: rivagesCategory:French terms with homophones#RIVAGE
• Hyphenation: ri‧vage
• Rhymes: -ɑʒCategory:Rhymes:French/ɑʒ#RIVAGECategory:Rhymes:French/ɑʒ/2 syllables#RIVAGE

Noun

rivage m (plural rivages)Category:French lemmas#RIVAGECategory:French nouns#RIVAGECategory:French countable nouns#RIVAGECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#RIVAGECategory:French masculine nouns#RIVAGECategory:Pages with entries#RIVAGECategory:Pages with 3 entries#RIVAGE

1. bank; shore; coast
   • 2015, Fréro Delavega, Ton visage:

     Que n'ai-je ? Une planche de salut, loin du métro, de son raffut, les yeux rivés sur le rivage, oublier ton lointain visage.

     What do I not have? A lifeline, far from the metro and all that racket. My eyes glued to the shore to forget your distant face.

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   • 2013, Zaz, On ira:

     Vous êtes l'horizon, nous sommes la mer. Vous êtes les saisons, nous sommes la terre. Vous êtes le rivage, et moi, je suis l'écume.

     You are the horizon, we are the sea. You are the seasons, we are the earth. You are the shore, and I am the foam.

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See also

• côte
• plage
• rive

References

Further reading

• “rivage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• virage

Etymology

From Late LatinCategory:Old French terms inherited from Late Latin#RIVAGECategory:Old French terms derived from Late Latin#RIVAGE rīpāticum. Equivalent to by surface analysis, rive +‎ -ageCategory:Old French terms suffixed with -age#RIVAGE.

Noun

rivage oblique singular, m (oblique plural rivages, nominative singular rivages, nominative plural rivage)Category:Old French lemmas#RIVAGECategory:Old French nouns#RIVAGECategory:Old French masculine nouns#RIVAGECategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#RIVAGECategory:Old French masculine nouns#RIVAGECategory:Pages with entries#RIVAGECategory:Pages with 3 entries#RIVAGE

1. riverbank or shore

References

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “rivage”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• rivage on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub