fluvial

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfluːvi.əl/

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fluvial (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream.
   • 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 45:

     ...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.

• fluavil, vialful

Borrowed from Latin fluviālis.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [flu.βiˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [flu.viˈal]

fluvial m or f (masculine and feminine plural fluvials)

1. fluvial

Borrowed from Latin fluviālis.

• IPA^(key): /fly.vjal/

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• Homophones: fluviale, fluviales

fluvial (feminine fluviale, masculine plural fluviaux, feminine plural fluviales)

1. (relational) fluvial

• fleuve

• “fluvial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin fluviālis.

• IPA^(key): [fluˈvi̯aːl]
• Hyphenation: flu‧vi‧al

fluvial (strong nominative masculine singular fluvialer, not comparable)

1. fluvial

• “fluvial” in Duden online
• “fluvial” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Latin fluvialis.

fluvial (masculine and feminine fluvial, neuter fluvialt, definite singular and plural fluviale)

1. fluvial

• “fluvial” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Latin fluvialis.

fluvial (neuter fluvialt, definite singular and plural fluviale)

1. fluvial

Learned borrowing from Latin fluviālis.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: flu‧vi‧al

fluvial m or f (plural fluviais)

1. fluvial

Borrowed from French fluvial, Latin fluviālis. By surface analysis, fluviu +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): [fluviˈal]

fluvial m or n (feminine singular fluvială, masculine plural fluviali, feminine and neuter plural fluviale)

1. fluvial

Borrowed from Latin fluviālis.

• IPA^(key): /fluˈbjal/ [fluˈβ̞jal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: flu‧vial

fluvial m or f (masculine and feminine plural fluviales)

1. fluvial

• “fluvial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024