arroyo

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See also: Arroyo

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish arroyo.

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Noun

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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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish arroyo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /a.ʁɔ.jo/
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Noun

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arroyo m (plural arroyos)

  1. arroyo

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /aˈroʝo/ [aˈro.ʝo]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /aˈroʃo/ [aˈro.ʃo]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /aˈroʒo/ [aˈro.ʒo]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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arroyo m (plural arroyos)

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

Etymology 2

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Verb

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arroyo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of arroyar

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