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rival

English

Etymology

From Latin r?v?lis (literally person using the same stream as another), from r?vus (small stream, brook).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??a?v?l/
  • Rhymes: -a?v?l

Noun

rival (plural rivals)

  1. A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
  2. Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
  3. (obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

Hyponyms

  • rivaless

Derived terms

  • rivaless
  • rivalry
  • archrival, arch-rival

Related terms

  • rivulet

Translations

Adjective

rival (not comparable)

  1. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
    rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions

Translations

Verb

rival (third-person singular simple present rivals, present participle rivalling or rivaling, simple past and past participle rivalled or rivaled)

  1. (transitive) To oppose or compete with.
    to rival somebody in love
  2. To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
  3. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
    • to rival thunder in its rapid course

Translations

Anagrams

  • Avril, arvil, viral

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /ri?val/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ri?bal/

Adjective

rival (masculine and feminine plural rivals)

  1. rival

Derived terms

  • rivalitzar

Related terms

  • rivalitat

Noun

rival m or f (plural rivals)

  1. rival

Further reading

  • “rival” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “rival” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  • “rival” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “rival” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin r?v?lis, literally ‘person using the same stream as another’, from r?vus (small stream, brook). Unrelated to rive.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?i.val/

Adjective

rival (feminine singular rivale, masculine plural rivaux, feminine plural rivales)

  1. rival (attributively)

Noun

rival m (plural rivaux, feminine rivale)

  1. rival

Descendants

  • Norwegian Bokmål: rival

Further reading

  • “rival” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • avril, livra, viral

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?i?va?l]
  • Hyphenation: ri?val

Adjective

rival (not comparable)

  1. (economics, of a good) rivalrous
    • 2012, Michael Goldhammer, Geistiges Eigentum und Eigentumstheorie, Mohr Siebeck, page 196:

Declension


Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French rival (rival), from Latin r?v?lis (of or pertaining to a brook), from r?vus (brook; channel), from Proto-Italic *r?wos, from Proto-Indo-European *h?riH-wó-s, from *h?reyH- (to move, flow).

Noun

rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivaler, definite plural rivalene)

  1. a rival

Derived terms

  • erkerival

References

  • “rival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin rivalis, via French rival

Noun

rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivalar, definite plural rivalane)

  1. a rival

Derived terms

  • erkerival

References

  • “rival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

rival m, f (plural rivais)

  1. rival (competitor with the same objective)
    Synonyms: adversário, oponente

Adjective

rival m or f (plural rivais, comparable)

  1. rival (standing in competition)

Related terms

  • rio

Romanian

Etymology

From French rival, from Latin rivalis.

Noun

rival m (plural rivali)

  1. rival

Declension


Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /r??a?l/
  • Hyphenation: ri?val

Noun

rìv?l m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

  1. rival, adversary

Declension


Spanish

Etymology

From Latin r?v?lis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ri?bal/, [ri???al]

Adjective

rival (plural rivales)

  1. adverse, rival

Noun

rival m or f (plural rivales)

  1. rival
    Synonyms: adversario, antagonista, competidor, contrario, oponente

Derived terms

  • archirrival

Related terms

  • rivalidad
  • rivalizar

Further reading

  • “rival” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin rivalis, via French rival.

Pronunciation

Noun

rival c

  1. rival

Declension

Anagrams

  • vilar

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nival

English

Etymology

From Latin nivalis, from nix, nivis (snow).

Adjective

nival (comparative more nival, superlative most nival)

  1. Abounding with snow; snowy; snow-covered (now especially in reference to plant habitats).
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
    • 2003, Laszlo Nagy, Georg Grabherr, Christian Körner, Desmond B.A. Thompson, Alpine Biodiversity in Europe, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 406:
      The observed climate warming during the twentieth century has affected alpine vegetation by increasing vascular plant species richness on nival mountain tops []
    • 2002, Mountain Research and Development:
      It includes the nival mountain top, the moorlands above the timberline, a belt of tropical rainforest, the semihumid footzone of the tertiary volcano, the semiarid high Laikipia Plateau, the escarpment, and the semiarid to arid Samburu Plains.
    • 1971, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts, volume 22, issues 1-6, page 447:
      In this way, the subnival mountain range on the southern facet with its strong solifluction influence (level slope formation) approaches in height the nival mountain range on the northern facet, which is distinguished by its well developed glacial forms.
  2. (botany) Found or thriving in snowy conditions.
    • 1914, The Journal of Ecology, page 60:
      In 1884 O. Heer published a comprehensive account of the nival flora of Switzerland, in which he listed 338 species of flowering plants found above 2600 m.; of these, 6 were found above 3900 m.
    • 2013, Rosa Margesin, Franz Schinner, Cold-Adapted Organisms: Ecology, Physiology, Enzymology and Molecular Biology, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 165:
      As can be seen from the present chapter, main problems of adaptation, ecophysiology, ecology and evolutionary biology of the nival fauna were hardly investigated at all.” The early history of explorations of the nival zone in the Alps has been summarized []

References

  • nival in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

  • Alvin, Lavin, Vilna, anvil, vinal

French

Etymology

From Latin nivalis, from nix.

Pronunciation

Adjective

nival (feminine singular nivale, masculine plural nivaux, feminine plural nivales)

  1. (attributively) snow

Related terms

  • névé
  • neige
  • nivéal (adjective)
  • nivologie

Further reading

  • “nival” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ni?va?l/
  • Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

nival (not comparable)

  1. nival

Declension

Derived terms

  • subnival

Spanish

Adjective

nival (plural nivales)

  1. snow; snow

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