arroyo

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish arroyo.

Pronunciation

Noun

arroyo (plural arroyos)

  1. A dry creek or streambed, a gulch which temporarily or seasonally fills and flows (after sufficient rain).
    • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
      Across the field were the tents, and beyond them the brown cottonfields that stretched out of sight to the brown arroyo foothills and then the snow-capped Sierras in the morning air.
  2. Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish arroyo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.ʁɔ.jo/
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Noun

arroyo m (plural arroyos)

  1. arroyo

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /aˈroʝo/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /aˈroʃo/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /aˈroʒo/

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *arrugium, from Latin arrugia (“mineshaft”).

Noun

arroyo m (plural arroyos)

  1. stream, brook, creek (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → English: arroyo
  • → Esperanto: rojo
  • → French: arroyo

Etymology 2

Verb

arroyo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of arroyar

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