fluvial
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fluviālis, from fluvius (“a stream”) + -ālis, from the root of fluere (“to flow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfluːvi.əl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Adjective
fluvial (not comparable)
- 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.
Coordinate terms
Related terms
Terms related to fluvial
Translations
of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream
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Catalan
French
Adjective
fluvial (feminine fluviale, masculine plural fluviaux, feminine plural fluviales)
- (relational) fluvial
Related terms
Further reading
- “fluvial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fluˈvi̯aːl]
- Hyphenation: flu‧vi‧al
Declension
Positive forms of fluvial (uncomparable)
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| predicative | er ist fluvial | sie ist fluvial | es ist fluvial | sie sind fluvial | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | fluvialer | fluviale | fluviales | fluviale |
| genitive | fluvialen | fluvialer | fluvialen | fluvialer | |
| dative | fluvialem | fluvialer | fluvialem | fluvialen | |
| accusative | fluvialen | fluviale | fluviales | fluviale | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der fluviale | die fluviale | das fluviale | die fluvialen |
| genitive | des fluvialen | der fluvialen | des fluvialen | der fluvialen | |
| dative | dem fluvialen | der fluvialen | dem fluvialen | den fluvialen | |
| accusative | den fluvialen | die fluviale | das fluviale | die fluvialen | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein fluvialer | eine fluviale | ein fluviales | (keine) fluvialen |
| genitive | eines fluvialen | einer fluvialen | eines fluvialen | (keiner) fluvialen | |
| dative | einem fluvialen | einer fluvialen | einem fluvialen | (keinen) fluvialen | |
| accusative | einen fluvialen | eine fluviale | ein fluviales | (keine) fluvialen | |
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
fluvial (masculine and feminine fluvial, neuter fluvialt, definite singular and plural fluviale)
References
- “fluvial” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /flu.viˈaw/ [flu.vɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /fluˈvjaw/ [fluˈvjaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /fluˈvjal/ [fluˈvjaɫ]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /fluˈbjal/ [fluˈβjaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /fluˈvja.li/
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Hyphenation: flu‧vi‧al
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fluviˈal]
Adjective
fluvial m or n (feminine singular fluvială, masculine plural fluviali, feminine and neuter plural fluviale)
Declension
Declension of fluvial
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | fluvial | fluvială | fluviali | fluviale | ||
| definite | fluvialul | fluviala | fluvialii | fluvialele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | fluvial | fluviale | fluviali | fluviale | ||
| definite | fluvialului | fluvialei | fluvialelor | fluvialilor | |||
Related terms
- fluviu (plural: fluvii)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fluˈbjal/ [fluˈβ̞jal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: flu‧vial
Derived terms
Further reading
- “fluvial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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