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Etymology and origin of the Latin word adripo

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Formation
Derivation
First attested
822
Ultimate origin
Latin rīpa
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Latin ripa
Latin adripo

Forms

adrīpō (present infinitive adrīpāre, perfect active adrīpāvī, supine adrīpātum); first conjugation[1] Also spelled arrīpō;[1][2][3] Niermeyer also has the spelling adrivāre.[1][2][3]

Etymology

It is from Latin ad- (“to”) + rīpa (“shore, bank”), with the ending of a first-conjugation verb: “to come to the bank”.[1][4][3]

It is the source of Old French ariver (“to come to land”), from which English has arrive,[5][3] and of Italian arrivare, Catalan arribar and Spanish arribar.[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Wiktionary dates its first record to 822.[1] A charter of King Zwentibold grants that no toll is to be taken at Dorestad from ships adrīpantibus, “coming to land” there.[4][3]

Semantic evolution

It is a word of charters about river and sea traffic: a Toulouse charter of 1243 allows people to fish in the Garonne and the Ariège, to sail, and arrīpāre “put in to the bank” with their boats.[3] From it came arripagium or arrivagium, a toll paid when a ship landed.[3] Niermeyer defines the verb simply as “to land”.[2]

The original idea of coming ashore after a voyage is still the first sense of English arrive, recorded from about 1200.[5]

Timeline

  • 822 – First recorded, according to Wiktionary.[1]
  • c. 1200 – English arrive appears, from Old French, in the sense “reach land”.[5]
  • 1243 – A Toulouse charter allows boats to put in to the banks of the Garonne.[3]

Meanings

Verb

  1. (Medieval Latin) To land, come ashore; of a ship, to put in at a bank.[1][2][3]
  2. (Medieval Latin, present participle as a noun) One who lands.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i du Cange, Charles du Fresne, et al. (1883–1887), Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, augmented ed. by Léopold Favre, Niort: L. Favre
  4. ^ a b c Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  5. ^ a b c Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
Cite this entry

“Adripo.” Etymologically, 23 Oct. 2026, etymologically.com/la/adripo. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

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