rivière

Etymology

Borrowed from French rivière

Noun

rivière (plural rivières)

1. A necklace of diamonds or other precious stones, especially one of several strings.

Etymology

From Middle French riviere, from Old French riviere, from Vulgar Latin *rīpāria (“riverbank, seashore, river”), from the feminine of Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from rīpa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *rei- (“to scratch, tear, cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.vjɛʁ/

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Noun

rivière f (plural rivières)

1. A river (a river that flows into another river. A river that flows into an ocean or sea is called a fleuve).

Further reading

• “rivière” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).