The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromrīvālis
- English todayrival
Learned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”). By surface analysis, Latin rīvus + -al.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
rival
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
Latin rīvālis