Arrival
/əˈraɪvəl/noun
The act of reaching a destination or the fact of having reached it.
Did you know?Arrival comes through Old French from a Latin root meaning “to the shore,” so its hidden history is basically a landing, not just a destination.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*h₃reie-
“to flow, move, run”
Latin
Latin
rīvus
“a stream, brook, or watercourse”
Late Latin
Latin
arrīpāre
“to come to shore, land”
Old French
Old French
arriver
“to reach land; to come to a place”
14th Century
English
arriven
“to come to shore or reach a place”
Modern English
English
arrival
“the act of arriving or the person/thing that has arrived”