rivière
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#RIVIERECategory:English terms derived from French#RIVIERE rivière. Doublet of river and rivieraCategory:English doublets#RIVIERE.
Noun
rivière (plural rivières)Category:English lemmas#RIVIERECategory:English nouns#RIVIERECategory:English countable nouns#RIVIERECategory:English terms spelled with È#RIVIERECategory:English terms spelled with ◌̀#RIVIERECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RIVIERECategory:Pages with entries#RIVIÈRECategory:Pages with 2 entries#RIVIÈRE
- A necklace of diamonds or other precious stones, especially one of several strings.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:riviere.
French
Etymology
From Middle FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Middle French#RIVIERECategory:French terms derived from Middle French#RIVIERE riviere, from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#RIVIERECategory:French terms derived from Old French#RIVIERE riviere, from Early Medieval LatinCategory:French terms inherited from Early Medieval Latin#RIVIERECategory:French terms derived from Early Medieval Latin#RIVIERE rīpāria.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁi.vjɛʁ/Category:French 2-syllable words#RIVIERECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#RIVIERE
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Noun
rivière f (plural rivières)Category:French lemmas#RIVIERECategory:French nouns#RIVIERECategory:French countable nouns#RIVIERECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#RIVIERECategory:French feminine nouns#RIVIERECategory:Pages with entries#RIVIÈRECategory:Pages with 2 entries#RIVIÈRE
- a river (a large, winding stream that flows into a lake, bay, larger river, etc., but not into an ocean or sea)
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References
- “rivière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012