rivulet

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English

Etymology

Old French riveret (“little stream”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪv.jə.lət/

Noun

rivulet (plural rivulets)

1. A small brook or stream; a streamlet.

   A rivulet of tears ran down his face.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Charles Cotton

     Rills running down the steepest slopes develop into rivulets.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 23, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.

Translations

small brook

• Armenian: գետակ (hy) (getak)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小河 (zh) (xiǎohé), 涓流 (zh) (juānliú), 溪流 (zh) (xīliú)

• Dutch: stroompje (nl) n, beekje (nl) n
• Esperanto: rivereto
• Finnish: noro (fi)
• French: ruisselet (fr) m, ru (fr) m, rivelet (fr) m
• German: Flüsschen (de) n, Bächlein (de) n
• Greek: ποταμάκι (el) n (potamáki)
• Greenlandic: kuunnguaq
• Hungarian: patak (hu)
• Ido: rivereto (io)

• Inupiak: kuugaatchiaq
• Italian: rigagnolo m
• Japanese: 小川 (ja) (おがわ, ogawa), 細流 (さいりゅう, sairyū)
• Kurdish: robar (ku) f, ro (ku) m
• Maori: manga
• Occitan: rivolet m, riusset m
• Portuguese: riachinho m
• Russian: ручеёк (ru) m (ručejók), речу́шка (ru) f (rečúška), руче́й (ru) m (ručéj)
• Spanish: riachuelo (es) m
• Swedish: å (sv), ström (sv) c
• Tagalog: ilug-ilugan, pasalangi, sapa, saog