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rivulet

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10
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13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈɹɪv.jʊ.lɪt/
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/ˈɹɪv.jʊ.lɪt/ · /ˈɹɪv.jə.lət/

Definition of rivulet

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A small stream; a streamlet; a gill.
    “A rivulet of tears ran down his face.”
    “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—”
    “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.”
    “Rills running down the steepest slopes develop into rivulets.”
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noun

  1. A small stream; a streamlet; a gill.
    “A rivulet of tears ran down his face.”
    “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—”
    “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.”
    “Rills running down the steepest slopes develop into rivulets.”
  2. Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth.

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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.

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