different between streamlet vs rivulet

English

Etymology

From stream +? -let.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st?i?ml?t/

Noun

streamlet (plural streamlets)

1. A small stream.
   • 1637, Philemon Holland (translator), Britain by William Camden, London: George Latham, “Kent,” p. 330,^[1]

     Then the river Medway, branching it selfe into five streamlets, is joyned with as many stone Bridges […]

   • 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman & Rees, Volume 1, Preface, p. iii,^[2]

     […] the eye, after poring over the unbounded expanse of the ocean, is releaved and delighted by a streamlet and a dell.

   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 19:

     I wanted to jog in leisurely fashion through the green fields and chestnut avenues, over the rushing bubbling streamlets, to join Sylvie.

Translations

Anagrams

• Marlettes

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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