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rivulet

UK/ˈɹɪv.jʊ.lɪt/US/ˈɹɪv.jə.lət/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,839 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: rivulets

A rivulet is a very small stream. A rivulet of water, rivulets down the glass, follow the rivulet.

It is used as much of rain running down a window or sweat down a face as of anything in a landscape. The Italian behind it is a diminutive of a diminutive, so a rivulet is a little little stream.

Svjetlopis, Vladimir Tadic · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of rivulet

  1. 1nounrivuletA very small stream.C1

    “After the rain, rivulets of muddy water ran down the hillside.”

rivulet is a stream.

Where it comes from

Italian rivoletto is a diminutive of rivolo, itself a diminutive of rivo, a stream.

  1. Latin

    rīvulus

  2. Italian

    rivoletto

  3. English, today

    rivulet

Built from

  • rivolo · Italian — trickle, little stream
  • rivo · Italian — stream, brook, creek

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, rīvus + -ule + -et.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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rivulet in the wild

  • Blomer's rivulet (Venusia blomeri) is a species of the family Geometridae of moths, in the subfamily Larentiinae which includes the carpet moth and pugs.

    Blomer's rivulet

  • Perizoma albulata, the grass rivulet, is a moth of the genus Perizoma in the family Geometridae.

    Perizoma albulata

  • Perizoma bifaciata, the barred rivulet, is a moth in the family of geometer moths (Geometridae).

    Perizoma bifaciata

  • Perizoma minorata, the heath rivulet, is a moth of the family Geometridae.

    Perizoma minorata

  • Mezitli River (Liparis of the antiquity) is a rivulet in Mersin Province, Turkey The river flows in the mid-southern portion of the Toros Mountains from north to south.

    Mezitli River

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.