Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗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. · Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another. · One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
To oppose or compete with. · To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another. · To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
Learned borrowing from Latin rīvālis (literally “person using the same stream as another”). By surface analysis, Latin rīvus + -al.
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- Learned-borrowing mentionrīvālisla
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