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Webster 1913 Edition

Rivulet

Riv′u-let

,

Noun.

[Earlier

rivolet

, It.

rivoletto

, a dim. fr.

rivolo

, L.

rivulus

, dim. of

rivus

a brook. CF.

,

.]

A small stream or brook; a streamlet.

By fountain or by shady

rivulet

He sought them.

Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Rivulet

RIV'ULET

,

Noun.

[L. rivulus.] A small stream or book; a streamlet.

By fountain or by shady rivulet, he sought them.

Definition 2024

rivulet

rivulet

English

Noun

rivulet ‎(plural rivulets)

A small brook or stream; a streamlet.
A rivulet of tears ran down his face.‎
- Charles Cotton (1630-1687)
  Rills running down the steepest slopes develop into rivulets.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 23, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
  The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.

Translations

small brook

Armenian: գետակ (hy) ‎(getak)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 小河 (zh) ‎(xiǎohé), 涓流 (zh) ‎(juānliú), 溪流 (zh) ‎(xīliú)
Dutch: stroompje (nl) n, beekje (nl) n
Esperanto: rivereto
Finnish: noro (fi)
French: ruisselet (fr) m
German: Flüsschen (de) n, Bächlein (de) n
Greek: ποταμάκι (el) n ‎(potamáki)
Greenlandic: kuunnguaq

Hungarian: patak (hu)
Ido: rivereto (io)
Inupiak: kuugaatchiaq
Italian: rigagnolo m
Japanese: 小川 (ja) ‎(おがわ, ogawa), 細流 ‎(さいりゅう, sairyū)
Portuguese: riachinho m
Russian: ручеёк (ru) m ‎(ručejók), речу́шка (ru) f ‎(rečúška), руче́й (ru) m ‎(ručéj)
Spanish: riachuelo (es) m
Swedish: å (sv), ström (sv) c
Tagalog: ilug-ilugan, pasalangi, sapa, saog