estiatge

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French étiage.

Pronunciation

Noun

estiatge m (plural estiatges)

  1. low water (lowest stage of watercourse)
    • 2008, Daniel Sánchez Franco, “El riu Llobregati la seva relació amb el territori a l'època romana”, in Universtat Oberta de Catalunya digital respository, page 36:
      Els mesos calorosos, però, patia estiatge que no vol dir una altra cosa que patia una disminució notable del seu cabal.
      In the hot months, it suffered low water, which only means that it suffered a notable reduction of its flow.

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