fleuve

Meaning

1. a river that flows into an ocean or sea (a river that flows into another river or body of water is called a rivière)
2. a continuous and unstoppable stream of people, things, or words
3. a river god, or the allegorical artistic representation of a river as an old, bearded man lying on reeds and holding or leaning on an urn from which the river's water flows

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/flœv/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French fleuve, from late Old French flueve (12th cent.), according to the traditional view, a dissimilated form of fluive, fluie, a re-borrowing of Latin fluvius (“stream”). Alternatively, confluence with Old French fluet, flot ("river, flood"; from Frankish *flōd) and/or borrowing from Old Norse flóð (“tidal flood, estuarine river or flood”) cannot be ruled out. See flot. Replaced native Old French fluns, flum, from Latin flūmen (compare Occitan flume, Romansch flüm, Italian fiume).

Sentences

Le fleuve Yalou forme la frontière nord avec la province du Liaoning en Chine .

The Yalou River forms the northern border with Liaoning Province in China.

Le fleuve Nisqually est historiquement lié au territoire de la tribu amérindienne Nisqually.

The Nisqually River is historically linked to the territory of the Nisqually Native American tribe.