Noun: Rivale
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Nominative
Indefinite
| Singular | ein Rivale |
| Plural | Rivalen |
Definite
| Singular | der Rivale |
| Plural | die Rivalen |
Genitive
Indefinite
| Singular | eines Rivalen |
| Plural | Rivalen |
Definite
| Singular | des Rivalen |
| Plural | der Rivalen |
Dative
Indefinite
| Singular | einem Rivalen |
| Plural | Rivalen |
Definite
| Singular | dem Rivalen |
| Plural | den Rivalen |
Accusative
Indefinite
| Singular | einen Rivalen |
| Plural | Rivalen |
Definite
| Singular | den Rivalen |
| Plural | die Rivalen |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like Rivale
Müllerbursche,
Astrologe,
Sängerknabe,
Lombarde,
Erzrivale,
Futurologe,
Gynäkologe,
Textologe,
Unterfranke,
Karobube,
Prügelknabe,
Prügeljunge,
Mykologe,
Seismologe,
Antipode,
Halunke,
Assassine,
Theologe,
Meteorologe,
Heckenschütze, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-wós
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₃riHwós
6. Proto-Italic *rīwos
7. Old Latin rīvos
8. Latin rīvus
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
10. Proto-Indo-European *-is
11. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
12. Proto-Italic *-ālis
13. Latin -ālis
14. Latin rīvālisbor.
15. French rivalbor.
16. German Rivale
17. Borrowed from French rival, initially as Rival (which Grimm still lists as the only form). In the 19th century, the singular was suffixed with -e, which Pfeifer suggests may have been a reanalysis a previously strong plural.. See: French Nouns '
rival'.
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