different between statute vs rivulet

English

Etymology

From Middle English statut, from Old French statut, from Late Latin statutum (“a statute”), neuter singular of Latin statutus, past participle of statu? (“I set up, establish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stæt?u?t/

Noun

statute (countable and uncountable, plural statutes)

1. Written law, as laid down by the legislature.
2. (law, common law) Legislated rule of society which has been given the force of law by those it governs.

Derived terms

• statutory
• statutorily
• statutory rape

Translations

Further reading

• statute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• statute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• tautest

Latin

Participle

stat?te

1. vocative masculine singular of stat?tus

References

• statute in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Etymology

From Old French riveret (“little stream”) or from Italian rivoletto, from Italian rivo, from Latin rivus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v.j?.l?t/

Noun

rivulet (plural rivulets)

1. A small brook or stream; a streamlet.
   • 1945, Charles Cotton, Geomorphology: An Introduction to the Study of Landforms

     Rills running down the steepest slopes develop into rivulets.
2. Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth.

Derived terms

• Blomer's rivulet

Related terms

• rival

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