confluentia
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Latin
Etymology
From cōnfluēns (present participle of cōnfluō (“to flow or run together”)) + -ia (nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kon.fluˈen.ti.a/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.fluˈen.t͡si.a/,
Noun
cōnfluentia f (genitive cōnfluentiae); first declension (Late Latin)
- a flowing together, conflux; a confluence
Inflection
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cōnfluentia | cōnfluentiae |
| genitive | cōnfluentiae | cōnfluentiārum |
| dative | cōnfluentiae | cōnfluentiīs |
| accusative | cōnfluentiam | cōnfluentiās |
| ablative | cōnfluentiā | cōnfluentiīs |
| vocative | cōnfluentia | cōnfluentiae |
Descendants
- Catalan: confluència
- → Middle English: confluens, confluence
- English: confluence
- Italian: confluenza
- Portuguese: confluência
- Spanish: confluencia
References
- “confluentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press