streamlet

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Etymology

Etymology tree

English stream

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -lus

Latin -ellus

Old French -el

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tosder.?

Late Latin -ittus

Old French -et

Old French -eletbor.

Middle English -let

English -let

English streamlet

From stream + -let.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹiːmlət/

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Noun

streamlet (plural streamlets)

1. A small stream.
   • 1610, William Camden, “Kent”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, page 330:

     Then the river Medway, branching it selfe into five streamlets, is joyned with as many stone Bridges […]

   • 1760, Anacreon, “Anacreon, Ode 22”, in James Beattie, transl., Original Poems and Translations, London: […] [F. Douglas?]; and sold by A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC, page 76:

     [A] ſtreamlet inviting repoſe / Soft-murmuring vvanders avvay, […]

   • 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons‎^[1], London: Longman & Rees, Volume 1, Preface, p. iii:

     […] the eye, after poring over the unbounded expanse of the ocean, is releaved and delighted by a streamlet and a dell.

   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 19:

     I wanted to jog in leisurely fashion through the green fields and chestnut avenues, over the rushing bubbling streamlets, to join Sylvie.

Translations

small stream

• Bulgarian: ручей (bg) m (ručej), поточе n (potoče)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小溪 (zh) (xiǎoxī)

• Esperanto: kanaleto
• Finnish: puro (fi), puronen
• French: ruisselet (fr) m
• German: Bächlein (de) n
• Hungarian: ér (hu), csermely (hu)
• Irish: altán m, caislín m, sreabhán (ga) m, sruthlán m
• Italian: rigagnolo (it) m, ruscelletto m, ruscellino m (uncommon)
• Japanese: 小川 (ja) (おがわ, ogawa)
• Māori: kuinga, kuikuinga, haemanga
• Russian: ручеёк (ru) m (ručejók), речу́шка (ru) f (rečúška)
• Spanish: arroyuelo (es) m
• Telugu: చిన్నయేరు (cinnayēru)
• Ukrainian: струмо́чок (strumóčok), поті́чок (potíčok), рі́чечка (ríčečka)
• Venetan: rìu (vec) m, riu m

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