Dictionary

rivulet en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹɪv.jə.lət/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɹɪv.jʊ.lɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Italian rivoletto, diminutive of rivolo (“trickle, little stream”), diminutive of rivo (“stream, brook, creek”), ultimately from Latin rīvulus, diminutive of rīvus. By surface analysis, Latin rīvus + -ule + -et.

Meanings

1. A small stream; a streamlet; a gill.
   • Yes Madam I think you will like them—when you shall see in a beautiful Quarto Page how a neat rivulet of Text shall meander thro' a meadow of margin—'fore Gad, they will be the most elegant Things of their kind— 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i:
   • A rivulet of tears ran down his face.
   • The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
   • Rills running down the steepest slopes develop into rivulets. 1945, Charles Cotton, Geomorphology: An Introduction to the Study of Landforms:
2. Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth.

Forms

Deriveds

Blomer's rivulet

Relateds

rival

Synonyms

rill (small brook or stream)

Translations (59)

ota دره (small brook) · tl sapa (small brook) · fi noro (small brook) · ik kuugaatchiaq (small brook) · ga glaise (small brook) · kl kuunnguaq (small brook) · tl pasalangi (small brook) · pl rzeczka (small brook) · it rigagnolo (small brook) · gl arroio (small brook) · fr ru (small brook) · el ποταμάκι (small brook) · eo rojo (small brook) · nl beekje (small brook) · tl saog (small brook) · ga silteán (small brook) · tr çay (small brook) · ja 小川 (small brook) · de Bächlein (small brook) · es riachuelo (small brook) · ca rierol (small brook) · cmn 涓流 (small brook) · ja 細流 (small brook) · cs potůček (small brook) · oc riusset (small brook) · ru руче́й (small brook) · kmr robar (small brook) · fr ruisselet (small brook) · tl ilug-ilugan (small brook) · cmn 小河 (small brook) · cy afonig (small brook) · sv ström (small brook) · fr rivelet (small brook) · mi manga (small brook) · bg ручей (small brook) · sv å (small brook) · gl regato (small brook) · de Flüsschen (small brook) · cy cornant (small brook) · gl regueiro (small brook) · hy գետակ (small brook) · hu patak (small brook) · oc rivolet (small brook) · ga srúill (small brook) · ota جدول (small brook) · ru ручеёк (small brook) · ga sruthlán (small brook) · pt riachinho (small brook) · kmr ro (small brook) · cs říčka (small brook) · cmn 溪流 (small brook) · ga glas (small brook) · bg поток (small brook) · io rivereto (small brook) · uk рі́чечка (small brook) · ru речу́шка (small brook) · ota چای (small brook) · nl stroompje (small brook) · pl strumyk (small brook)