fleuve.
a river that flows into an ocean or sea (a river that flows into another river or body of water is called a rivière)
Meaning & usage
a river that flows into an ocean or sea (a river that flows into another river or body of water is called a rivière)
L’Amazone est un fleuve d'Amérique du Sud.
Le fleuve Churchill au Labrador se jette dans l'Atlantique, alors que la rivière Churchill au Manitoba se jette dans la baie d'Hudson.
a continuous and unstoppable stream of people, things, or words
Ce qui devait être une brève question est rapidement devenue un discours-fleuve.
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
Where this word comes from
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, Romansh flüm, Italian fiume).
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