river

EnglishEdit

A river

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English ryver, river, rivere, from Anglo-Norman rivere, from Old French riviere, from Vulgar Latin *rīpāria (“riverbank, seashore, river”), from Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from Latin rīpa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”). Doublet of riviera and rivière. Displaced native Old English ēa.

PronunciationEdit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪvə/
(General American) enPR: rĭv'ər, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪvɚ/
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Rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
Hyphenation: riv‧er

NounEdit

river (plural rivers)

A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
- 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
  By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.
- 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
  Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.

Synonyms: see Thesaurus:river
Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
a river of blood
(poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
- 2017, Nathan Schwiethale, Ace High: Mastering Low Stakes Poker Cash Games (page 70)
  He called instantly but was too ashamed to show until the river.
(typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

Usage notesEdit

As with the names of lakes and mountains, the names of rivers are typically formed by adding the word before or after the unique term: the River Thames or the Yangtze River. Generally speaking, names formed using adjectives or attributives see river added to the end, as with the Yellow River. It is less common to add river before names than it is with lakes, but many of the rivers of Britain are written that way, as with the River Severn; indeed, British English tends to use "River X" in such cases while American, South African, Australian and New Zealand English use "X River". The former derives from the earlier but now uncommon form river of ~: the 19th century River of Jordan is now usually simply the River Jordan.
It is common to preface the proper names of rivers with the article the.
Concerning the reference of its coordinate terms, some people say:^[1] you can step over a brook, jump over a creek, wade across a stream, and swim across a river.

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from river (etymology 1, noun)

Bear River
cross the river
cry someone a river
Eagle River
Elk River
Fall River
French River
Green River
Hay River
Hood River
Indian River
Kansas River
Klip River
Little River
lost river
Mad River
Mooi River
Moose River
Pearl River
Powder River
river basin
river bed
river birch
river blindness
river bottom
river boulder
river dolphin
river duck (Anatinae)
river hog (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)
river horse
river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis)
river limpet (Ancylus fluviatilis)
river mouth
river mussel (Unionidae)
river otter
river pear (Grias cauliflora)
river prawn (Macrobrachium spp.)
river runner
river shad (Alosa chrysochloris, Gudusia spp.)
river snail (Viviparidae)
river water
riverbank
riverbed
riverboat/river boat
riverfront
riverine
riverside
riverward
riverway
Rush River
salmon river, Salmon River
sell down the river
St. Johns River
submarine river
Three Rivers
Touws River
up the river
White River
Yellow River

English lemmas starting with river

Related termsEdit

tributary (noun)

DescendantsEdit

→ Finnish: river (“river (in poker)”)
Sranan Tongo: liba

TranslationsEdit

See river/translations § Noun.

VerbEdit

river (third-person singular simple present rivers, present participle rivering, simple past and past participle rivered)

(poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.

Etymology 2Edit

rive +‎ -er

PronunciationEdit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪvə/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪvɚ/
Rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)

NounEdit

river (plural rivers)

One who rives or splits.

ReferencesEdit

^ Definitions of rivers, stream, brooks, creeks and other terms (Goran Šafarek, WorldRivers.net, November 29, 2018)

DanishEdit

NounEdit

river c

indefinite plural of rive

VerbEdit

river

present of rive

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

< English river

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈriʋer/, [ˈriʋe̞r]
Rhymes: -iʋer
Syllabification^(key): ri‧ver

NounEdit

river

(poker) river (fifth communal card in Texas hold'em)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of river (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		river	riverit
genitive		riverin	riverien rivereiden rivereitten
partitive		riveriä	rivereitä riverejä
illative		riveriin	rivereihin
		singular	plural
nominative		river	riverit
accusative	nom.	river	riverit
accusative	gen.	riverin	riverit
genitive		riverin	riverien rivereiden rivereitten
partitive		riveriä	rivereitä riverejä
inessive		riverissä	rivereissä
elative		riveristä	rivereistä
illative		riveriin	rivereihin
adessive		riverillä	rivereillä
ablative		riveriltä	rivereiltä
allative		riverille	rivereille
essive		riverinä	rivereinä
translative		riveriksi	rivereiksi
instructive		—	riverein
abessive		riverittä	rivereittä
comitative		—	rivereineen

Possessive forms of river (type paperi)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	riverini	riverimme
2nd person	riverisi	riverinne
3rd person	riverinsä

SynonymsEdit

viides avokortti, viimeinen avokortti

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From a Germanic source (compare Danish rive).

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ʁi.ve/

VerbEdit

river

to drive/set a rivet

ConjugationEdit

Conjugation of river (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	river
present participle or gerund¹	simple	rivant /ʁi.vɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rivé /ʁi.ve/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rive /ʁiv/	rives /ʁiv/	rive /ʁiv/	rivons /ʁi.vɔ̃/	rivez /ʁi.ve/	rivent /ʁiv/
	imperfect	rivais /ʁi.vɛ/	rivais /ʁi.vɛ/	rivait /ʁi.vɛ/	rivions /ʁi.vjɔ̃/	riviez /ʁi.vje/	rivaient /ʁi.vɛ/
	past historic²	rivai /ʁi.ve/	rivas /ʁi.va/	riva /ʁi.va/	rivâmes /ʁi.vam/	rivâtes /ʁi.vat/	rivèrent /ʁi.vɛʁ/
	future	riverai /ʁi.vʁe/	riveras /ʁi.vʁa/	rivera /ʁi.vʁa/	riverons /ʁi.vʁɔ̃/	riverez /ʁi.vʁe/	riveront /ʁi.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	riverais /ʁi.vʁɛ/	riverais /ʁi.vʁɛ/	riverait /ʁi.vʁɛ/	riverions /ʁi.və.ʁjɔ̃/	riveriez /ʁi.və.ʁje/	riveraient /ʁi.vʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior²	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	rive /ʁiv/	rives /ʁiv/	rive /ʁiv/	rivions /ʁi.vjɔ̃/	riviez /ʁi.vje/	rivent /ʁiv/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	rivasse /ʁi.vas/	rivasses /ʁi.vas/	rivât /ʁi.va/	rivassions /ʁi.va.sjɔ̃/	rivassiez /ʁi.va.sje/	rivassent /ʁi.vas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	rive /ʁiv/	—	rivons /ʁi.vɔ̃/	rivez /ʁi.ve/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
¹ The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
² In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).