fluive

Old French

Alternative forms

floeve, flueve, fluvie, fluie

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fluvius. Some forms implicate interference from Old Norse flóð (“tidal flood, estuarine river”). More at fleuve.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈflui̯.və/

Noun

fluive oblique singular, m (oblique plural fluives, nominative singular fluives, nominative plural fluive)

river; stream

Synonyms

flum
riviere

Descendants

French: fleuve

References

Etymology and history of “fleuve”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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