arroyo
See also: Arroyo
English
Etymology
From Spanish arroyo.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈɹɔɪ.əʊ/
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈɹɔɪ.oʊ/
- Hyphenation: ar‧ro‧yo
Noun
arroyo (plural arroyos)
- A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, OCLC 43419454, part 1:
- Across the field were the tents, and beyond them the brown cottonfields that stretched out of sight to the brown arroyo foothills and then the snow-capped Sierras in the morning air.
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- Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).
Translations
creek which only seasonally flows
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any water course
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See also
- coulee
- draw
- wash
French
Etymology
From Spanish arroyo.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
arroyo m (plural arroyos)
- arroyo
Further reading
- “arroyo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *arrugium, from Latin arrugia (“mineshaft”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /aˈroʝo/ [aˈro.ʝo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /aˈroʃo/ [aˈro.ʃo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /aˈroʒo/ [aˈro.ʒo]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -oʝo
- Syllabification: a‧rro‧yo
Noun
arroyo m (plural arroyos)
- stream, brook, creek (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally)
Derived terms
- arroyar
- arroyito
- arroyuelo
Descendants
- → English: arroyo
- → Esperanto: rojo
- → French: arroyo
Verb
arroyo
- first-person singular present indicative of arroyar
Further reading
- “arroyo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014