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Latin
Etymology
Present participle of cōnfluō (“to flow or run together”), from cōn- (“with, together”) + fluō (“to flow”).
Pronunciation
Participle
cōnfluēns (genitive cōnfluentis); third-declension one-termination participle
- present active participle of cōnfluō
Inflection
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
Noun
cōnfluēns m (genitive cōnfluentis); third declension
- a confluence (place where two rivers unite)
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Inflection
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Toponyms derived from the plural cōnfluentēs:
- Learned borrowings:
References
- “confluens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confluens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confluens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- confluens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.