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fluvial

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈfluːvi.əl/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: F L UW1 V IY0 AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adjective

Meaning 2

of or relating to or happening in a river

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • fluvial deposits

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: نَهْرِيّ (nahriyy) — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Belarusian: рачны́ (račný) — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Belarusian: рэ́чны (réčny) — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Bulgarian: ре́чен (réčen) — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Chinese Mandarin: 河流的 (héliú de) — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Czech: říční — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Danish: flod- — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • French: fluvial — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Galician: fluvial — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • German: Fluss- — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • German: fluvial — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Greek: ποτάμιος (potámios) — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Hungarian: folyami — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Hungarian: folyó- — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Irish: abhann — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Irish: dobhar- — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Irish: srutha — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Irish: aibhneach — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Italian: fluviale — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Latin: fluviālis — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Lithuanian: upinis — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Macedonian: речен (rečen) — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fluvial — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: fluvial — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Polish: rzeczny — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Portuguese: fluvial — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Romanian: fluvial — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Russian: речно́й (rečnój) — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Serbo-Croatian: ре̑чнӣ — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Serbo-Croatian: рије̑чнӣ — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Serbo-Croatian: rȇčnī — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Serbo-Croatian: rijȇčnī — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Slovak: riečny — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Slovene: rečen — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Spanish: fluvial — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Swedish: fluvial — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Swedish: älv- — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Swedish: flod- — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Ukrainian: річни́й (ričnýj) — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
  • Ukrainian: річкови́й (ričkovýj) — of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream