rivage
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman rivage, Middle French rivage, from Late Latin rīpāticum.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹɪvɪdʒ/
Noun
rivage (plural rivages)
- (now rare, poetic) A coast, a shore.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
- Ryght soo departed Galahad / Percyual / and Bors with hym / and soo they rode thre dayes / and thenne they came to a Ryuage and fonde the shyp […] / And whanne they cam to the borde / they fonde in the myddes the table of syluer / whiche they had lefte with the maymed kynge and the Sancgreal whiche was couerd with rede samyte
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- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- Pactolus with his waters shere
Throwes forth upon the rivage
- 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, OCLC 1008064829, part V, page 25:
- From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical, […]
- 1892, Michael Field, "The Death of Procris"
- […] leaves have taken flight
- From yon
- Slim seedling-birch on the rivage, the flock
- Of herons has the quiet of solitude […]
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- (law, UK, historical) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.
Anagrams
- Argive, virgae
French
Etymology
From Old French rivage, from Late Latin rīpāticum. Equivalent to by surface analysis, rive + -age.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁi.vaʒ/
Audio (file) - Homophone: rivages
- Hyphenation: ri‧vage
- Rhymes: -ɑʒ
Noun
rivage m (plural rivages)
- bank; shore; coast
- 2015, Fréro Delavega, Ton visage
- Que n'ai-je ? Une planche de salut, loin du métro, de son raffut, les yeux rivés sur le rivage, oublier ton lointain visage.
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- 2013, Zaz, On ira
- Vous êtes l'horizon, nous sommes la mer. Vous êtes les saisons, nous sommes la terre. Vous êtes le rivage, et moi, je suis l'écume.
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- 2015, Fréro Delavega, Ton visage
Usage notes
- Refers to the area of land connected to the sea.[1][2] For freshwater, see rive.
See also
- côte
- plage
- rive
References
- https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/rivage
- https://jaimelesmots.com/un-rivage-et-une-rive/
Further reading
- “rivage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- virage
Old French
Etymology
From Late Latin rīpāticum. Equivalent to by surface analysis, rive + -age.
Noun
rivage m (oblique plural rivages, nominative singular rivages, nominative plural rivage)
- riverbank or shore
Descendants
- French: rivage
- → English: rivage
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (rivage, supplement)
- rivage on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub