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arrive

/əˈaɪv/ur-EYEV
/ɚˈaɪv/ur-EYEV

Meaningto come to the shore

Common meaning: to reach a place (first: to come to shore)

‘to, towards (form of ad-)’ + ‘a river bank’ → arrive

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√RIP‘break, rive’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 309, p. 741 · scan
  2. Latinrīpa‘a river bank’
  3. Frenchariver
  4. Middle Englisharyuensource
  5. Englisharrive‘to reach a place (first: to come to shore)’ · today

ar- also in: arrogant

riv also in: river

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin rīpa ‘a river bank’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry rīpa, p. 1596 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • rīpa Latin “a river bank”

Related words

river

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