noun
Meaning 1
A small stream; a streamlet; a gill.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- A rivulet of tears ran down his face.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
rivulet
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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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪv.jʊ.lɪt/
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General-American: /ˈɹɪv.jə.lət/
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noun
Meaning 2
Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a small stream
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rill, run, runnel, streamlet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stream, watercourse
History
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.
Across languages
Translations
59 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: գետակ (getak) — small brook
- Bulgarian: поток (potok) — small brook
- Bulgarian: ручей (ručej) — small brook
- Catalan: rierol — small brook
- Chinese Mandarin: 小河 (xiǎohé) — small brook
- Chinese Mandarin: 涓流 (juānliú) — small brook
- Chinese Mandarin: 溪流 (xīliú) — small brook
- Czech: potůček — small brook
- Czech: říčka — small brook
- Dutch: stroompje — small brook
- Dutch: beekje — small brook
- Esperanto: rojo — small brook
- Finnish: noro — small brook
- French: ruisselet — small brook
- French: ru — small brook
- French: rivelet — small brook
- Galician: arroio — small brook
- Galician: regato — small brook
- Galician: regueiro — small brook
- German: Flüsschen — small brook
- German: Bächlein — small brook
- Greek: ποταμάκι (potamáki) — small brook
- Greenlandic: kuunnguaq — small brook
- Hungarian: patak — small brook
- Ido: rivereto — small brook
- Inupiaq: kuugaatchiaq — small brook
- Irish: glaise — small brook
- Irish: glas — small brook
- Irish: silteán — small brook
- Irish: srúill — small brook
- Irish: sruthlán — small brook
- Italian: rigagnolo — small brook
- Japanese: 小川 (ogawa) — small brook
- Japanese: 細流 (sairyū) — small brook
- Northern Kurdish: robar — small brook
- Northern Kurdish: ro — small brook
- Māori: manga — small brook
- Occitan: rivolet — small brook
- Occitan: riusset — small brook
- Polish: rzeczka — small brook
- Polish: strumyk — small brook
- Portuguese: riachinho — small brook
- Russian: ручеёк (ručejók) — small brook
- Russian: речу́шка (rečúška) — small brook
- Russian: руче́й (ručéj) — small brook
- Spanish: riachuelo — small brook
- Swedish: å — small brook
- Swedish: ström — small brook
- Tagalog: ilug-ilugan — small brook
- Tagalog: pasalangi — small brook
- Tagalog: sapa — small brook
- Tagalog: saog — small brook
- Turkish: çay — small brook
- Ottoman Turkish: چای (çay) — small brook
- Ottoman Turkish: دره (dere) — small brook
- Ottoman Turkish: جدول (cedvel) — small brook
- Ukrainian: рі́чечка (ríčečka) — small brook
- Welsh: cornant — small brook
- Welsh: afonig — small brook