different between shore vs rivage

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: shô, IPA^(key): /???/
• (General American) enPR: shôr, IPA^(key): /???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: sh?r?, IPA^(key): /?o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: sure (accents with the pour–poor merger); Shaw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English schore, from Old English *s?ora (attested as s?or- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to Old English s?ieran (“to cut”), which survives today as English shear.

Cognate with Middle Dutch scorre (“land washed by the sea”), Middle Low German schor (“shore, coast, headland”), Middle High German schorre ("rocky crag, high rocky shore"; > German Schorre, Schorren (“towering rock, crag”)), and Limburgish sjaor (“riverbank”). Maybe connected with Norwegian Bokmål skjær.

Noun

shore (plural shores)

1. Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.

   • the fruitful shore of muddy Nile
2. (from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port.

Usage notes

• Generally, only the largest of rivers, which are often estuaries, are said to have shores.
• Rivers and other flowing bodies of water are said to have banks.
• River bank(s) outnumbers River shore(s) about 200:3 at COCA.

Hyponyms

• (land adjoining a large body of water): beach, headland, coast

Derived terms

Related terms

• longshoreman
• shorage

Translations

Verb

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

1. (obsolete) To set on shore.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Dutch schooren (“to prop up, support”) and Middle Low German schore (“to shovel, sweep”). It is of uncertain origin, but has been found in some other Germanic languages. Compare Old Norse skorða (“piece of timber set up as a support”).

Noun

shore (plural shores)

1. A prop or strut supporting the weight or flooring above it.

   The shores stayed upright during the earthquake.

Verb

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

1. (transitive, without up) To provide with support.
2. (usually with up) To reinforce (something at risk of failure).

   My family shored me up after I failed the GED.

   The workers were shoring up the dock after part of it fell into the water.

Synonyms

• (without up): reinforce, strengthen, support, buttress
• (with up): prop up, bolster

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

See shear.

Verb

shore

1. simple past tense of shear

Etymology 4

Noun

shore (plural shores)

1. (Obsolete except in Hiberno-English) A sewer.

Etymology 5

Perhaps a form of score, or another form of sure, equivalent to assure.

Verb

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

1. (Scotland, archaic) To warn or threaten.
2. (Scotland, archaic) To offer.

References

Anagrams

• H-O-R-S-E, H.O.R.S.E., HORSE, Horse, RSeOH, Rohes, hoers, horse, hoser, shero, shoer

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman rivage, Middle French rivage, from rive + -age.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???v?d?/

Noun

rivage (plural rivages)

1. (now rare, poetic) A coast, a shore.
   • 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 […]

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Recollections of the Arabian Nights

     From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical.

2. (law, Britain, historical) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.

Anagrams

• Argive, virgae

French

Etymology

From rive +? -age, ultimately from Latin ripaticus (“moorage, shore”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.va?/
• Homophone: rivages
• Hyphenation: ri?vage
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

rivage m (plural rivages)

1. bank; shore; coast

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• virage

Old French

Noun

rivage m (oblique plural rivages, nominative singular rivages, nominative plural rivage)

1. riverbank or shore

Descendants

• ? English: rivage
• French: rivage

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (rivage, supplement)
• rivage on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub