riparian

English

WOTD – 12 June 2011

Etymology

Borrowed fromLatinrīpārius(“relating to a riverbank”)+‎-an.

Pronunciation

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ɹʌɪˈpɛːɹɪən/,/ɹɪˈpɛːɹɪən/

• Audio(General Australian):

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Ariparianstripon a tributary to Lake Erie

Adjective

riparian(comparativemoreriparian,superlativemostriparian)

1. Of or relating to the bank of ariverorstream.
   • 1966March,Thomas Pynchon,chapter 5, inThe Crying of Lot 49,Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.:J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company,→OCLC,page112:

     By the time she'd pulled into Bortz's subdivision, aripariansettlement in the style of Fangoso Lagoons, she was only shaking and a little nauseous in the stomach.

   • 2011May 28, Jim Perrin,The Guardian:

     A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket ofriparianwillow.

   • 2013January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, inAmerican Scientist‎^[1],volume101,number 1, archived fromthe originalon22 January 2013,page59:

     European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lushriparianmeadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

   • 2021April 1, Lara Fowler, “No April Fool’s joke for Florida: Water rights case is dismissed”,inSCOTUSblog:

     Relying on the fact that both states areriparianstates, the court noted that both have “an equal right to make a reasonable use” of the water in the shared basin and that Florida bore the “heavy burden” of proving its case by clear and convincing evidence.

Derived terms

• hydroriparian
• mesoriparian
• nonriparian
• pseudoriparian
• riparian buffer
• riparian right
• riparianism
• riparianness
• semiriparian
• xeroriparian

Translations

of or pertaining to a riverbank

• Bulgarian:крайречен(krajrečen)
• Catalan:ripari(ca),riberenc
• Finnish:jokivarren(fi)(genitive of noun),jokivarsi-(fi)
• French:rivulaire(fr)
• German:Ufer-(de)
• Hungarian:ártéri(hu)
• Italian:ripariom,ripaiolof,ripicolof,ripestref
• Norwegian:elverelatert
• Portuguese:ribeirinhom,ribeirinhaf,ripáriaf,ripícolaf
• Spanish:ribereño(es)
• Swedish:strand-

See also

• riverain
• riverine

Noun

riparian(pluralriparians)

1. (chieflylaw)A person or other entity that lives or owns property along the shore of ariver.