ravine

Senso

Noun

1. a small ravine or gully
2. beginning of a furrowing or formation of a ravine

Verb

1. inflection of raviner:
2. inflection of raviner:

Etimologia

From the Old French verb raviner (“flow with force; sweep down; pillage, cascade”), or from the noun ravine, raveine (“robbery, rapine; violent rush of water, waterfall, avalanche; impetuosity, spirit”), from Latin rapīna. Doublet of rapine, a borrowing from the same Latin term.

Frasi

Il se dresse au bord d'une ravine .

Si trova sul bordo di un burrone.