fleuve
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From Middle French fleuve, from late Old French flueve (12th cent.), by-form of fluive, fluie, learned loan from Medieval Latin fluvius. Influenced in form and meaning by Old French fluet, flot (“river, flood”), from Frankish *flōd.[1][2][3] See flot. Replaced native Old French fluns, flum, from Latin flūmen (compare Occitan flume, Romansch flüm).
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fleuve m (plural fleuves)
- A river (one that flows into an ocean or sea. A river that flows into another river is called a rivière).
- L’Amazone est un fleuve d'Amérique du Sud.
- The Amazon is a river located in South America.
- L’Amazone est un fleuve d'Amérique du Sud.
