fluviophile

English

Etymology

From Latin fluvius +‎ -o- +‎ -phile.

Noun

fluviophile (plural fluviophiles)

1. (rare) A lover of rivers.
   • 1976, Lawrence Clark Powell, “Desert, Mountains, and Rivers”, in From the Heartland: Profiles of People and Places of the Southwest and Beyond, Flagstaff: Northland Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 18:

     Enough of this lecture on hydrography by a mere fluviophile. Is it because I was born on a river bank — the Potomac — of river valley ancestors — the Hudson — and grew up in Southern California in the halcyon years when the rivers ran wild in spring and spread over the plain; is it because of this conditioning, as well as by fondness for the rivers of Europe — the Seine, Rhone, Var, Arno, Tiber, Tagus, Tyne, and Thames, that I have come to love rivers more than any other form of water?

   • 1977, Lawrence Clark Powell, “The Phoenix Has Risen—Now What?”, in The Journal of Arizona History, Arizona Historical Society, page 244:

     Now I am a fluviophile, planning a book on Arizona in terms of its river systems.

   • 1977, Lawrence Clark Powell, Westways, Automobile Club of Southern California, page 66, column 3:

     “I work for the state,” I said, thinking I’d tell him I write occasionally for Arizona Highways. He laughed. “The state cuts no ice up here. We’re the Salt River Project.” I tried again. “I’m a fluviophile,” I explained. “You’re a what?” “A fluviophile. A lover of rivers.” “I’ll be damned! That’s a new one.” I played my last card. “I know Rod McMullin,” I said, naming the manager of the Salt River Project.

   • 2011, John D. Milliman, Katherine L. Farnsworth, “Runoff, erosion, and delivery to the coastal ocean”, in River Discharge to the Coastal Ocean: A Global Synthesis, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section “Sediment: erosion and discharge”, page 44:

     An extreme example of the southern European rivers is Albania’s Semani River (a name perhaps recognized only by the most fervent fluviophile).

   • 2020 May 1, David Aaronovitch, “Rivers of Power by Laurence C Smith review — how rivers made history”, in The Times:

     This is a book for fluviophiles, which is to say that this is a book for me.

   • 2020 July, “Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations and Shapes Our World; Laurence C Smith; Allen Lane, 356pp, £20”, in The Oldie, number 389, section “Review of Books” (issue 52), page 7, column 2:

     A self-confessed ‘fluviophile’, David Aaronovich in the Times found the book ‘instructive and entertaining on the subject of riparian disasters, natural and man-made.’

Synonyms

• potamophile