arrive

From Middle English arriven, ariven, from Old French ariver, from Early Medieval Latin adrīpāre (“to land, come ashore”), derived from Latin rīpa (“shore, river-bank”). Displaced native oncome, tocome.

For the semantic evolution, compare Old English ġelandian, ġelendan, lendan (“to arrive at land; land”) > Middle English alenden, landen (“to arrive; arrive at shore; land”).

• enPR: ə-rīvʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈɹaɪv/

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• Rhymes: -aɪv

arrive (third-person singular simple present arrives, present participle arriving, simple past and past participle arrived)

1. (intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.

   We arrived at the hotel and booked in.

   He arrived home for two days.

   • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:

     In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

2. (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.

   He had finally arrived on Broadway.

   • 2002, Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921, page 58:

     Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.

3. (intransitive) To come; said of time.

   The time has arrived for us to depart.

4. (intransitive) To happen or occur.
   • 1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter:

     Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.

5. (transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:

     Ere he arrive the happy isle.

   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     Ere we could arrive the point proposed.

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, (please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):

     Arrive at last the blessed goal.

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.
   • 1618, George Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo:

     and made the sea-trod ship arrive them

• Additional, nonstandard, and uncommon past tense and past participle are, respectively, arrove and arriven, formed by analogy to verbs like drove and driven.

• depart

• arrival

• Rivera, Vierra, ravier, varier

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁiv/

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arrive

1. inflection of arriver:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• rivera
• varier
• verrai
• virera