# arrive
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English arriven, ariven, from Old French ariver, from Early Medieval Latin adrīpāre (“to land, come ashore”), derived from Latin rīpa (“shore, river-bank”). Displaced native oncome, tocome.
For the semantic evolution, compare Old English ġelandian, ġelendan, lendan (“to arrive at land; land”) > Middle English alenden, landen (“to arrive; arrive at shore; land”).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: ə-rīvʹ, IPA: /əˈɹaɪv/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪv

### Verb

arrive (third-person singular simple present arrives, present participle arriving, simple past and past participle arrived)
* (intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
    We arrived at the hotel and booked in.
    He arrived home for two days.
** 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
* (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.
    He had finally arrived on Broadway.
** 2002, Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921, page 58:Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.
* (intransitive) To come; said of time.
    The time has arrived for us to depart.
* (intransitive) To happen or occur.
** 1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter:Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.
* (transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Ere he arrive the happy isle.
** 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):Arrive at last the blessed goal.
* (intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.
** 1618, George Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo:and made the sea-trod ship arrive them

#### Usage notes

* Additional, nonstandard, and uncommon past tense and past participle are, respectively, arrove and arriven, formed by analogy to verbs like drove and driven.

#### Antonyms

* depart

#### Derived terms

* arrivance
* arrivant
* arrive at
* it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive
* rearrive
* unarrived
* unarriving

#### Related terms

* arrival

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* Rivera, Vierra, ravier, varier

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.ʁiv/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

arrive
* inflection of arriver:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* rivera
* varier
* verrai
* virera