confluo

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Latin

Etymology

From cōn- (with, together) +‎ fluō (to flow).

Pronunciation

Verb

cōnfluō (present infinitive cōnfluere, perfect active cōnflūxī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

  1. (Classical Latin, intransitive) to flow or run together
    Synonyms: fluitō, fluō, affluō, īnfluō, praefluō, dēfluō, mānō
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) to flock or crowd together, to come together in multitudes; to throng, assemble
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References

  • confluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • confluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • confluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to collect together at one spot: in unum locum convenire, confluere

Portuguese

Verb

confluo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of confluir