fluvial

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluviālis, from fluvius (“a stream”) +‎ -ālis, from the root of fluere (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfluːvi.əl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

fluvial (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream.
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Synonyms

of a river

• fluviatile
• riverine

 

Coordinate terms

• alluvial

 

Related terms

Terms related to fluvial

• adfluvial
• fluvialist
• fluvially
• fluviatic
• glaciofluvial
• interfluvial
• orthofluvial
• paleofluvial
• parafluvial
• subfluvial
• transfluvial

 

Translations

of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream

• Arabic: نَهْرِيّ (nahriyy)
• Belarusian: рачны́ (račný), рэ́чны (réčny)
• Bulgarian: ре́чен (bg) (réčen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 河流的 (zh) (héliú de)

• Czech: říční (cs)
• Danish: flod- (da)
• French: fluvial (fr)
• Galician: fluvial (gl)
• German: Fluss- (de), fluvial (de)
• Greek: ποτάμιος (el) (potámios)
• Hungarian: folyami (hu), folyó- (hu)
• Irish: abhann (ga), dobhar-, srutha, aibhneach
• Italian: fluviale (it)
• Latin: fluviālis
• Lithuanian: upinis
• Macedonian: речен (rečen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fluvial (no)

  Nynorsk: fluvial

• Polish: rzeczny (pl)
• Portuguese: fluvial (pt)
• Romanian: fluvial (ro)
• Russian: речно́й (ru) (rečnój)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ре̑чнӣ, рије̑чнӣ

  Roman: rȇčnī (sh), rijȇčnī (sh)

• Slovak: riečny (sk)
• Slovene: rečen (sl)
• Spanish: fluvial (es)
• Swedish: fluvial (sv), älv- (sv), flod- (sv)
• Ukrainian: річни́й (ričnýj), річкови́й (uk) (ričkovýj)

Anagrams

• fluavil, vialful

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluviālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [flu.βiˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [flu.viˈal]

Adjective

fluvial m or f (masculine and feminine plural fluvials)

1. fluvial

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluviālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fly.vjal/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: fluviale, fluviales

Adjective

fluvial (feminine fluviale, masculine plural fluviaux, feminine plural fluviales)

1. (relational) fluvial

Related terms

• fleuve

Further reading

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

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluviālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fluˈvi̯aːl]
• Hyphenation: flu‧vi‧al

Adjective

fluvial (strong nominative masculine singular fluvialer, not comparable)

1. fluvial

Declension

Positive forms of fluvial (uncomparable)

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist fluvial	sie ist fluvial	es ist fluvial	sie sind fluvial
strong declension (without article)	nominative	fluvialer	fluviale	fluviales	fluviale
	genitive	fluvialen	fluvialer	fluvialen	fluvialer
	dative	fluvialem	fluvialer	fluvialem	fluvialen
	accusative	fluvialen	fluviale	fluviales	fluviale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der fluviale	die fluviale	das fluviale	die fluvialen
	genitive	des fluvialen	der fluvialen	des fluvialen	der fluvialen
	dative	dem fluvialen	der fluvialen	dem fluvialen	den fluvialen
	accusative	den fluvialen	die fluviale	das fluviale	die fluvialen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein fluvialer	eine fluviale	ein fluviales	(keine) fluvialen
	genitive	eines fluvialen	einer fluvialen	eines fluvialen	(keiner) fluvialen
	dative	einem fluvialen	einer fluvialen	einem fluvialen	(keinen) fluvialen
	accusative	einen fluvialen	eine fluviale	ein fluviales	(keine) fluvialen

Further reading

• “fluvial” in Duden online
• “fluvial” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin fluvialis.

Adjective

fluvial (masculine and feminine fluvial, neuter fluvialt, definite singular and plural fluviale)

1. fluvial

References

• “fluvial” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin fluvialis.

Adjective

fluvial (neuter fluvialt, definite singular and plural fluviale)

1. fluvial

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fluviālis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /flu.viˈaw/ [flu.vɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /fluˈvjaw/ [fluˈvjaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fluˈvjal/ [fluˈvjaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fluˈvjal/ [fluˈvjaɫ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fluˈbjal/ [fluˈβjaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fluˈvja.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: flu‧vi‧al

Adjective

fluvial m or f (plural fluviais)

1. fluvial

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fluvial, Latin fluviālis. By surface analysis, fluviu +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fluviˈal]

Adjective

fluvial m or n (feminine singular fluvială, masculine plural fluviali, feminine and neuter plural fluviale)

1. fluvial

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	fluvial		fluvială		fluviali	fluviale
	definite	fluvialul		fluviala		fluvialii	fluvialele
genitive- dative	indefinite	fluvial		fluviale		fluviali	fluviale
	definite	fluvialului		fluvialei		fluvialelor	fluvialilor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluviālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fluˈbjal/ [fluˈβ̞jal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: flu‧vial

Adjective

fluvial m or f (masculine and feminine plural fluviales)

1. fluvial

Derived terms

• buscarla fluvial
• fluvialmente

 

Further reading

• “fluvial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10