From Middle English arriven, ariven, from Old French ariver, from la-eme adripo, derived from Latin rīpa.

For the semantic evolution, compare Old English ġelandian, ġelendan, lendan > Middle English alenden, landen.

• enPR: ə-rīvʹ, IPA: /əˈɹaɪv/

arrive (arrives, present participle arriving; simple past and past participle arrived)

1. (intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.

   We arrived at the hotel and booked in.

   He arrived home for two days.

2. (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.

3. (intransitive) To come; said of time.

   The time has arrived for us to depart.

4. (intransitive) To happen or occur.
   • 1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter:

     Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.

5. (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.

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.
   • 1618, George Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo:

     and made the sea-trod ship arrive them

• depart

• arrival

• French: arriver
• German: gelangen, kommen, erreichen, ankommen
• Italian: arrivare, giungere
• Portuguese: chegar
• Russian: (on foot) доходи́ть
• Spanish: llegar

• French: arriver
• German: ankommen, einlangen (Austrian German), einlaufen, eintreffen
• Italian: arrivare, giungere
• Portuguese: chegar
• Russian: прибыва́ть
• Spanish: llegar, arribar

• French: réussir, percer
• German: schaffen
• Portuguese: vencer
• Russian: достига́ть
• Spanish: lograr, triunfar, tener éxito