riu

• arriu
• río

Inherited from Vulgar Latin rius, from Latin rīvus (“brook, small stream”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈrju/
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: riu

riu m (plural rius)

1. river

• Aragonario

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈriw]

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• Rhymes: -iw

Inherited from Old Catalan riu, from Vulgar Latin rius (“river”), from Latin rīvus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rih₂wós, from *h₃reyh₂- (“to flow; to move, set in motion”) + *-wós.

riu m (plural rius)

1. river

riu

1. inflection of riure:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “riu” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Vulgar Latin rius (“river”), from Latin rīvus (“brook; small stream”).

riu m (plural rius)

1. river

riu

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of rir

From Portuguese rio.

riu

1. river

riu

1. Rōmaji transcription of りう

• IPA^(key): /rʲiu/, /rʲuː/

riu (emphatic riuish)

1. second-person form/plural of rish
2. with you (formal)

   As ta mee gra riu. And I say unto you.

From Old Leonese, from Vulgar Latin rius (“river”), from Latin rīvus (“brook; small stream”).

riu m (plural rius)

1. river

From Old Occitan riu,from Vulgar Latin rius (“river”) or Latin rīvus (“brook; small stream”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈrriw]

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riu m (plural rius)

1. river

From Vulgar Latin rius (“river”) or Latin rīvus (“brook; small stream”).

riu m (oblique plural rius, nominative singular rius, nominative plural riu)

1. river (body of flowing water)

• Occitan: riu

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “rivus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 422

 

From Portuguese rio and Spanish río.

riu

1. river

From Old Galician-Portuguese riio, riiu.

• Rhymes: -iw
• Homophone: rio (Brazil, Central and Southern Portugal)
• Hyphenation: riu

riu

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of rir

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

riu

1. hummingbird

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano (1999) El alfabeto del triqui de San Martín, Itunyoso‎^[1] (in Spanish)

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ziw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐiw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɹiw˧˧]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

(classifier cái, chiếc) riu

1. kind of shrimp trap

riu

1. to fish (for shrimps)

   riu tép ― to catch small shrimps

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

riu (diminutive reduplication riu riu)

1. (rare or obsolete) little by little