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the toddler version of a river, all ambition and no width.
means A small stream or tiny brook — a thread of running water far slimmer than a river.
from From Italian 'rivoletto,' a diminutive of 'rivolo' (a little stream), itself descended from Latin 'rivulus,' the diminutive of 'rivus' meaning 'brook' or 'stream.' The Latin '-ulus' ending is the very grammar of smallness, so the word carries 'little river' baked into its bones — and 'rivus' is also the distant ancestor of 'rival,' since neighbors once squabbled over the same flowing water.
- latin roots
- From rivus, meaning stream, with a tiny-making suffix
- poet bait
- Beloved by Romantics for sounding prettier than creek
- geology role
- Rivulets carve the first lines of future canyons
- sweat duty
- Often describes drops trickling down a forehead
river lethe — mythological underworld stream in greek mythology, associated with forgetfulness
birks of aberfeldy — scottish waterfall with small streams immortalized in robert burns' 1787 poem
doodh kosi — tributary rivulet of the kosi river in nepal, milky white from glacial silt