rivière

See also: riviere and Riviere

English

Alternative forms

• riviere

Etymology

Borrowed from French rivière. Doublet of river and riviera.

Noun

rivière (plural rivières)

1. A necklace of diamonds or other precious stones, especially one of several strings.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:riviere.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French riviere, from Old French riviere, from Vulgar Latin *rīpāria (“riverbank, seashore, river”), from the feminine of Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from rīpa (“river bank”) (whence rive).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.vjɛʁ/

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Noun

rivière f (plural rivières)

1. a river (one that flows into a river, lake, bay, etc., but not into an ocean or sea)

Usage notes

• A river that flows into an ocean or sea is called a fleuve.

Derived terms

• les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières
• perche de rivière
• porter de l’eau à la rivière
• Trois-Rivières

Descendants

• → English: rivière

See also

• fleuve
• ru
• ruisseau

Further reading

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