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English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”). By surface analysis, Latin rīvus +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɹaɪvəl/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪvəl

Noun

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rival (plural rivals)

  1. A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
    Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.
    • 1983, “Karma Chameleon”, in Colour by Numbers, performed by Culture Club:
      Every day is like survival / You're my lover, not my rival
    • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
      The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
  2. Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
    As a social historian, he has no rival.
  3. (obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

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Adjective

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rival (not comparable)

  1. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
    rival lovers
    rival claims or pretensions

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Verb

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rival (third-person singular simple present rivals, present participle (US) rivaling or (UK) rivalling, simple past and past participle (US) rivaled or (UK) rivalled)

  1. (transitive) To oppose or compete with.
    to rival somebody in love
  2. To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.
    • 1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 1:
      But the Waverley is still the best-placed station of any British city, and gives the arriving stranger a first impression rivalled in Europe only by the exclusively watery station approach at Venice.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […] .
  3. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
    • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
      to rival thunder in its rapid course

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Catalan

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin rīvālis.

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    rival m or f (masculine and feminine plural rivals)

    1. rival

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    Noun

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    rival m or f by sense (plural rivals)

    1. rival

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    Chavacano

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Spanish rival (“rival”).

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    • Hyphenation: ri‧val

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    rival

    1. rival

    Czech

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    Etymology

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      Borrowed from German Rival.

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      rival m anim (female equivalent rivalka)

      1. rival, competitor, opponent
        sportovní rivalové. ― sports rivals.

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      Declension of rival (hard masculine animate)
      singular plural
      nominative rival rivalové
      genitive rivala rivalů
      dative rivalovi, rivalu rivalům
      accusative rivala rivaly
      vocative rivale rivalové
      locative rivalovi, rivalu rivalech
      instrumental rivalem rivaly
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      French

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      Etymology

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        Borrowed from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”), from rīvus (“small stream, brook”). Unrelated to rive.

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        rival (feminine rivale, masculine plural rivaux, feminine plural rivales)

        1. (relational) rival
          Near-synonym: adverse

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        rival m (plural rivaux, feminine rivale)

        1. rival
          Near-synonym: adversaire

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        Descendants

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        • → Norwegian Bokmål: rival

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        German

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        Etymology

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        Ultimately from Latin rīvālis.

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        • IPA(key): [ʁiˈvaːl]
        • Hyphenation: ri‧val

        Adjective

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        rival (strong nominative masculine singular rivaler, not comparable)

        1. (economics, of a good) rivalrous
          • 2012, Michael Goldhammer, Geistiges Eigentum und Eigentumstheorie, Mohr Siebeck, page 196:
            Als zweites Argument gegen die Möglichkeit von geistigem Eigentum wird häufig vorgebracht, dass immaterielle Güter ihrer Natur nach nicht rival seien […]
            As a second argument against the possibility of intellectual property, it is often brought forward that immaterial goods are not rivalrous by nature

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        Positive forms of rival (uncomparable)
        number & gender singular plural
        masculine feminine neuter
        predicative er ist rival sie ist rival es ist rival sie sind rival
        strong declension
        (without article)         		nominative rivaler rivale rivales rivale
        genitive rivalen rivaler rivalen rivaler
        dative rivalem rivaler rivalem rivalen
        accusative rivalen rivale rivales rivale
        weak declension
        (with definite article)         		nominative der rivale die rivale das rivale die rivalen
        genitive des rivalen der rivalen des rivalen der rivalen
        dative dem rivalen der rivalen dem rivalen den rivalen
        accusative den rivalen die rivale das rivale die rivalen
        mixed declension
        (with indefinite article)         		nominative ein rivaler eine rivale ein rivales (keine) rivalen
        genitive eines rivalen einer rivalen eines rivalen (keiner) rivalen
        dative einem rivalen einer rivalen einem rivalen (keinen) rivalen
        accusative einen rivalen eine rivale ein rivales (keine) rivalen
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        Norwegian Bokmål

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        Etymology

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        From French rival (“rival”), from Latin rīvālis (“of or pertaining to a brook; rival”), from rīvus (“brook; channel”), from Proto-Italic *rīwos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃riH-wó-s, from *h₃reyH- (“to move, flow”), from *h₃er- (“to move, stir”).

        Noun

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        rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivaler, definite plural rivalene)

        1. a rival

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        Norwegian Nynorsk

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        Etymology

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        From Latin rivalis, via French rival.

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        rival m (definite singular rivalen, indefinite plural rivalar, definite plural rivalane)

        1. a rival

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        Portuguese

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        • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
        • Hyphenation: ri‧val

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        rival m or f by sense (plural rivais)

        1. rival (competitor with the same objective)
          Synonyms: adversário, oponente

        Adjective

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        rival m or f (plural rivais)

        1. rival (standing in competition)
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        Romanian

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        Etymology

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        Borrowed from French rival, from Latin rivalis.

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        rival m (plural rivali)

        1. rival

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        singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative-accusative rival rivalul rivali rivalii
        genitive-dative rival rivalului rivali rivalilor
        vocative rivalule rivalilor

        Serbo-Croatian

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        • IPA(key): /rǐʋaːl/
        • Hyphenation: ri‧val

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        rìvāl m anim (Cyrillic spelling рѝва̄л)

        1. rival, adversary

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        Declension of rival
        singular plural
        nominative rìvāl rivali
        genitive rivála riválā
        dative rivalu rivalima
        accusative rivala rivale
        vocative rivale rivali
        locative rivalu rivalima
        instrumental rivalom rivalima

        Spanish

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        Etymology

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        From Latin rīvālis.

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        • IPA(key): /riˈbal/ [riˈβ̞al]
        • Rhymes: -al
        • Syllabification: ri‧val

        Adjective

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        rival m or f (masculine and feminine plural rivales)

        1. rival
        2. adverse
          Synonym: adverso

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        rival m or f by sense (plural rivales)

        1. rival
          Synonyms: adversario, antagonista, competidor, contrario, oponente

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        Swedish

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        Etymology

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        From Latin rivalis, via French rival.

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        rival c

        1. rival

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        Declension of rival
        nominative genitive
        singular indefinite rival rivals
        definite rivalen rivalens
        plural indefinite rivaler rivalers
        definite rivalerna rivalernas
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        • “rival”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
        • rival in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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