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fluvial en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈfluːvi.əl/

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream.
    • ...that's where I remember the vertigo, surrendering to that vertigo when I came inside you, a liberating surrender, a total bravery, and may forces unknown to me decide, impulses, fluvial wills, cells, creatures, the fauna of the mystery, an orange dinosaur in a toy store. 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 45:

Coordinates

alluvial

Deriveds

transfluvial · parafluvial · subfluvial · fluviality · orthofluvial · fluvial terrace · adfluvial · fluvialist · fluviatic · fluvially · paleofluvial · interfluvial · glaciofluvial

Synonyms

riverine (of a river) · fluviatile (of a river)

Translations (43)

sl rečen (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · lt upinis (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · cmn 河流的 (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · pt fluvial (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · gl fluvial (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · ga aibhneach (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · ro fluvial (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · sh рије̑чнӣ (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · uk річни́й (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · ga dobhar- (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · be рэ́чны (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · fi joki- (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · sh rȇčnī (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · de Fluss- (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · fr fluvial (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · be рачны́ (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · la fluviālis (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · mk речен (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · el ποτάμιος (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · sv fluvial (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · bg ре́чен (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · fi fluviaalinen (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · sv älv- (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · ga srutha (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · pl rzeczny (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · uk річкови́й (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · cs říční (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · es fluvial (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · sk riečny (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · it fluviale (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · ru речно́й (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · sh ре̑чнӣ (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · ga abhann (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · nn fluvial (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · hu folyami (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · de fluvial (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · ar نَهْرِيّ (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · nb fluvial (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · da flod- (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · fi virta- (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · sh rijȇčnī (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · sv flod- (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream) · hu folyó- (of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream)