"fleuve" meaning in French

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Noun

IPA: /flœv/ Audio: Fr-fleuve.ogg Forms: fleuves [plural]
Etymology: 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, Romansch flüm, Italian fiume). Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|fleuve|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French fleuve, {{inh+|fr|frm|fleuve}} Inherited from Middle French fleuve, {{inh|fr|fro|flueve}} Old French flueve, {{m|fro|fluive}} fluive, {{m|fro|fluie}} fluie, {{der|fr|la|fluvius|t=stream}} Latin fluvius (“stream”), {{cog|fro|fluet}} Old French fluet, {{m|fro|flot}} flot, {{cog|frk|*flōdu|*flōd}} Frankish *flōd, {{gl|"river, flood"; from Frankish <i class="Latn mention" lang="gmw-pro">*flōd</i>}} ("river, flood"; from Frankish *flōd), {{cog|non|flóð|t=tidal flood, estuarine river or flood}} Old Norse flóð (“tidal flood, estuarine river or flood”), {{l|fr|flot}} flot, {{cog|fro|fluns}} Old French fluns, {{m|fro|flum}} flum, {{cog|la|flūmen}} Latin flūmen, {{cog|oc|flume}} Occitan flume, {{cog|rm|flüm}} Romansch flüm, {{cog|it|fiume}} Italian fiume Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} fleuve m (plural fleuves)
  1. a river that flows into an ocean or sea (a river that flows into another river or body of water is called a rivière) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-fleuve-fr-noun-dRyfcYU9
  2. (figurative) a continuous and unstoppable stream of people, things, or words Tags: figuratively, masculine
    Sense id: en-fleuve-fr-noun-NZqVMZOq
  3. (mythology, art) 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 Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Art, Mythology Categories (place): Bodies of water, Landforms
    Sense id: en-fleuve-fr-noun-~uAEqK7H Disambiguation of Bodies of water: 27 10 63 Disambiguation of Landforms: 26 12 61 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 2 11 87 Topics: art, arts, human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: long fleuve tranquille Related terms: fluvial, rivière, ru

Inflected forms

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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Fr-fleuve.ogg",
      "text": "audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fleuve"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.