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arrive, arriving
1. To reach a place after coming from another place.
2. To be delivered, or brought, to someone or something: "We are waiting for the mail to arrive."
3. To begin, or to happen, after a period of time or of waiting: "They were told that they would have to complete the work before winter."
4. To reach a decision after thinking about or discussing a problem: "How did you decide to write so many pages?"
5. To enter life by being born: "The baby has finally arrived."
6. Etymology: from Old French ariver, "to come to land"; from Vulgar Latin arripare, "to touch the shore"; from Latin ad ripam, "to the shore"; from ad, "to" + ripa, "shore", with an original meaning of "coming ashore after a long voyage".
2. To be delivered, or brought, to someone or something: "We are waiting for the mail to arrive."
3. To begin, or to happen, after a period of time or of waiting: "They were told that they would have to complete the work before winter."
4. To reach a decision after thinking about or discussing a problem: "How did you decide to write so many pages?"
5. To enter life by being born: "The baby has finally arrived."
6. Etymology: from Old French ariver, "to come to land"; from Vulgar Latin arripare, "to touch the shore"; from Latin ad ripam, "to the shore"; from ad, "to" + ripa, "shore", with an original meaning of "coming ashore after a long voyage".
The sense of "to come to a position" or "state of mind" is from 1393.
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ripari-, ripa-, rip-, riv- +
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(Latin: to demand a formal promise, to bargain; to arrive an an agreement; to compromise)