🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

arroyo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: arroyo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Stream/striːm/
nounverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #850 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Los niños jugaban junto al arroyo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A small, narrow river.

    "We crossed the clear stream by stepping on the stones."
  2. 2

    A continuous flow of data, liquid, or people.

    "The website offers a live stream of the concert."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'strēam', of Germanic origin, meaning a flowing body of water. Cognate with Old High German 'strōm' and Dutch 'stroom', ultimately tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root *sreu- meaning 'to flow'. Over centuries, the meaning has expanded from physical natural waterways to metaphorical flows of events, air, and digital media data.

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