ripari-, ripa-, rip-, riv- +

(Latin: ripa, river, stream; bank, river bank, shore)


aeroderivative
An aviation propulsion gas turbine (jet engine) used in a non-aviation applications (that is, an electric power plant) to provide shaft power.
arrival
1. Someone, or something, recently arriving at a place or joining a group.
2. An aircraft, train, or bus arriving at an airport or station.
3. The reaching of a goal or objective as a result of some effort or a process.
4. Etymology: from Middle English arrivaile; from Old French arriver, "to arrive"; from Vulgar Latin arripare, "to touch the shore"; from ad-, "to" and Latin ripa, "shore, bank".

The coming to, or reaching a place, from a distance, whether by water, as in its original sense, or by land.

arrive, arriving
1. To reach a place after coming from another place.
2. To be delivered, or brought, to someone or something: "We are waiting for the mail to arrive."
3. To begin, or to happen, after a period of time or of waiting: "They were told that they would have to complete the work before winter."
4. To reach a decision after thinking about or discussing a problem: "How did you decide to write so many pages?"
5. To enter life by being born: "The baby has finally arrived."
6. Etymology: from Old French ariver, "to come to land"; from Vulgar Latin arripare, "to touch the shore"; from Latin ad ripam, "to the shore"; from ad, "to" + ripa, "shore", with an original meaning of "coming ashore after a long voyage".

The sense of "to come to a position" or "state of mind" is from 1393.

arrived
1. Having reached a destination or place: "We arrived at the hotel and went to our room."
2. Arrived by movement or progress.
derivable
1. That which may be drawn, or received, as from a source.
2. Anything that can be received from ancestors; such as, an estate which is derivable from an ancestor.
3. Deducible; as an argument is derivable from facts or preceding proposals.
derivation
1. The origin, or source, of something; such as, a word or someone's name.
2. The formation of a word, or term, from another word or from a basic form.
3. The historical origin and development of a word; an etymology.
4. A mathematical, or logical argument, whose steps show that the conclusion follows necessarily from initial assumptions.
5. The act of obtaining something from a source or issuing from a source.
derivative
1. An idea, language, term, or other thing that has developed from something else that is similar to it.
2. A word that is formed from another word; for example, "quickly" from "quick" or "electricity" from "electric".
3. A chemical substance that is formed from a related substance; such as, an opium derivative.
4. A financial product that can be traded and whose value depends on the value of some other asset or combination of assets.

A contract, or security, that derives its value from that of an underlying asset (as another security) or from the value of a rate (as of interest or currency exchange) or index of asset value (as a stock index).

Derivatives often take the form of customized contracts transacted outside of security exchanges, while other contracts; such as, standard index options and futures, are openly traded on such exchanges.

A derivative is also defined as a contract to buy or to sell an asset or to exchange cash, based on a specified condition, event, occurrence, or another contract.

derivatives
1. Derivatives are financial instruments, which include forwards, futures, options and swaps, whose value is based on (or derived from) an underlying asset, index or reference rate.
2. Having values that depend on an underlying asset of variable value.
3. A collective term for securities whose prices are based on the prices of another (underlying) investment. In general, derivatives are high-risk investments and not suitable for the ordinary investor.
4. Derivatives are used for hedging by buying a derivative with a value that moves against that of another investment that an investor holds; for example, shares in a given company can be hedged by buying "put options" in the same company.

A "put option" gives its holder the right to sell the underlying asset at a predetermined price.

derive
1. To obtain, or to receive, or to come from a source.
2. To arrive at by reasoning; to deduce or to infer: "She alway strives to derive a conclusion from facts."
3. To trace the origin, or development, of a word.
4. To develop from another word or a source word or term.
5. To create a chemical substance from another substance.
6. Etymology: from Old French deriver; from Latin derivare, "to lead" or "to draw off (a stream of water) from its source"; from the phrase de rivo, from de, "from" + rivus, "stream".
deriver
1. Someone who derives, or draws, from a source.
2. Anyone who receives, or obtains something; especially, from a specified source.
Riparia
A species of birds that are closely associated with rivers.

They nest in tunnels usually excavated by the birds themselves in a natural sand bank or earth mound along streams or rivers.

They lay white eggs, which are incubated by both parents, in a nest of straw, grass and feathers in a chamber at the end of the burrow.

riparial
Frequenting, growing on, or living on the banks of streams or rivers.
riparian
1. Relating to, or located, on the banks of a river or stream.
2. Situated, or taking place, along or near the bank of a river.
riparious
Growing or living along the banks of streams; such as, an animal or a plant.
ripicola
Living by rivers and streams.

Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "river, stream": amni-; fluvio-; meand-; oceano-; potamo-.


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