streamlet
A small stream.
Noun
- A small stream.
- Then the river Medway, branching it selfe into five streamlets, is joyned with as many stone Bridges […] - 1610, William Camden, “Kent”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the...
- [A] ſtreamlet inviting repoſe / Soft-murmuring vvanders avvay, […] - 1760, Anacreon, “Anacreon, Ode 22”, in James Beattie, transl., Original Poems and Translations, London: […] [F. Douglas?]; and sold by A[ndrew] Millar...
- […] the eye, after poring over the unbounded expanse of the ocean, is releaved and delighted by a streamlet and a dell. - 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman & Rees, Volume 1,...
Origin
Etymology tree English stream Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Old French -eletbor. Middle English -let English -let English streamlet From stream + -let.