Etymology

Rijeka

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Today it means: A coastal city in northwestern Croatia. Full definition →

Serbo-Croatian Rijéka ← Latin Flūmen
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromFlūmen
  2. Serbo-Croatian · borrowed fromRijéka
  3. English todayRijeka

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Rijéka/Рије́ка (literally “river”), calqued from Latin Flūmen, from flūmen.

Words from the same roots

LatinFlūmen all →

flumeFiumeflumenfluminous

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