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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
- (Classical Latin, intransitive) to flow or run together
- Synonyms: fluitō, fluō, affluō, īnfluō, praefluō, dēfluō, mānō
- (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
- first-person singular present indicative of confluir