riviere

See also: Riviere and rivière

English

Noun

riviere (plural rivieres)

1. Alternative form of rivière (“necklace of precious stones”)
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Afrikaans

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Noun

riviere

1. plural of rivier

Friulian

Noun

riviere f (plural rivieris)

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Italian

Noun

riviere f

1. plural of riviera

Anagrams

• virerei

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French riviere, from Vulgar Latin *rīpāria (“riverbank, seashore, river”), from the feminine of Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from rīpa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”).

Noun

riviere f (plural rivieres)

1. river

Descendants

• French: rivière
  • → English: rivière

Old French

Alternative forms

• rivere

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *rīpāria (“riverbank, seashore, river”), from the feminine of Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from rīpa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”).

Noun

riviere oblique singular, f (oblique plural rivieres, nominative singular riviere, nominative plural rivieres)

1. river

Descendants

• Middle French: riviere
  • French: rivière
    • → English: rivière
• → Middle Dutch: riviere
  • Dutch: rivier
    • Afrikaans: rivier
    • Jersey Dutch: rîver
• → Middle English: ryver, ryvere, river, rivere, rever, revere, revyr, reyvere
  • English: river
  • Scots: river
• → Italian: riviera
  • → English: Riviera