rival English · revision 70

+ ==Etymology==

+ First recorded in the 1570s^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate) as “one who pursues the same object as another”,^(Etymonline) [[bor|la|rīvālis|t=rival in love; neighbour]],^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate) originally “one using the same stream as another”,^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU) from [[la|rīvus|t=stream, brook]],^(AHD)^(Etymonline) [[der|ine-pro|*rei-|t=to run, flow]].^(Etymonline)^(AHD)

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+ The OED explains the Latin word as originally meaning one living on the opposite bank of a stream from another.^(OED 1989) Merriam-Webster allows a borrowing via Middle French ''rival''.^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==References==

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