arroyo

See also: Arroyo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish arroyo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈɹɔɪ.əʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈɹɔɪ.oʊ/
• Hyphenation: ar‧ro‧yo

Noun

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).

Translations

creek which only seasonally flows

• French: cadereau (fr) m
• Georgian: შრობადი კალაპოტის რუ (šrobadi ḳalaṗoṭis ru), შრობადი კალაპოტის ნაკადული (šrobadi ḳalaṗoṭis naḳaduli), სეზონურად მდინარე რუ (sezonurad mdinare ru), სეზონურად მდინარე ნაკადული (sezonurad mdinare naḳaduli)
• German: Rivier (de) n (an African arroyo)
• Panamint: okkwaitaippüh, hunuppin
• Spanish: arroyo (es) m
• Welsh: sychnant f

any water course

• Navajo: bikooh
• Portuguese: arroio (pt) m
• Spanish: arroyo (es) m
• Tamil: ஆறு (ta) (āṟu)
• Taos: hə̏olune

See also

• coulee
• draw
• wash

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish arroyo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁɔ.jo/

• Audio:

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Noun

arroyo m (plural arroyos)

1. arroyo

Further reading

• “arroyo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /aˈroʝo/ [aˈro.ʝo]

• 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]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -oʝo
• Syllabification: a‧rro‧yo

Etymology 1

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

Noun

arroyo m (plural arroyos)

1. stream, brook, creek (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally)

Derived terms

• arroyar
• arroyito
• arroyuelo
• azulilla de arroyo
• sauce de los arroyos

 

Descendants

• → English: arroyo
• → Esperanto: rojo
• → French: arroyo

Etymology 2

Verb

arroyo

1. first-person singular present indicative of arroyar

Further reading

• “arroyo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10