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The bad news is that river and rival aren't actually related, since the Latin word ripa 'river bank,' the root of river, is of unknown etymology; the good news is that rival has a very interesting etymology which is the real focus here: it's from Latin rivalis 'one using the same stream as another, a rival,' from rivus 'stream.'
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'Me quotiens reficit gelidus Digentia rivus, quem Mandela bibit, rugosus frigore pagus.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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After Lat. i the v disappeared (rivus-um, Span. rio), but in most other cases it remained as a bilabial spirant euqal in balue to originally intervocalic b (novus-um, Span. nuevo).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Quo propius ad veritatis fontem accedimus, eo purior decurrit Catholicae doctrinae rivus. '
The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels John William Burgon 1850
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The Concord had rarely been a river, or rivus, but barely fluvius, or between fluvius and lacus.
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This Merrimack was neither rivus nor fluvius nor lacus, but rather amnis here, a gently swelling and stately rolling flood approaching the sea.
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At liquidi fbntes et ftagna Tirentia muico Adfint, et tenuis, fugiens per gramina, rivus;
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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