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rivus

rivus

Latin

Noun

rīvus m ‎(genitive rīvī); second declension

A small stream (of water); brook, stream.
An artificial watercourse; channel, conduit, canal.
A gutter.
(figuratively, of a liquid) A stream.

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	rīvus	rīvī
genitive	rīvī	rīvōrum
dative	rīvō	rīvīs
accusative	rīvum	rīvōs
ablative	rīvō	rīvīs
vocative	rīve	rīvī

Derived terms

rīvō
rīvora
rīvulus

Descendants

Aragonese: río
Aromanian: rãu, arãu
Asturian: ríu
Catalan: riu
Extremaduran: riu
Fala: riu
French: ru

Galician: río
Italian: rio, rivo
Ladino: rio (Latin spelling)
Leonese: ríu
Mirandese: riu
Occitan: riu
Old Portuguese: rio

Papiamentu: riu
Portuguese: rio
Romanian: râu
Sardinian: arriu, ribu, erriu, irriu, riu, rivu
Sicilian: rìu, rivu
Spanish: río
Venetian: rio

Anagrams

virus

References

rivus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
rivus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “rivus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 326