diffluo

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Latin

Etymology

From dis- +‎ fluō (“flow”).

Pronunciation

Verb

diffluō (present infinitive diffluere, perfect active difflūxī, supine difflūxum); third conjugation, no passive

  1. (intransitive, of liquids) to flow or run or shed away or in different directions
  2. (intransitive) to dissolve, melt away, disappear
  3. (intransitive, figuratively) to be dissolved in, abandoned to, waste away

Conjugation

   Conjugation of diffluō (third conjugation, no passive)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present diffluō diffluis diffluit diffluimus diffluitis diffluunt
imperfect diffluēbam diffluēbās diffluēbat diffluēbāmus diffluēbātis diffluēbant
future diffluam diffluēs diffluet diffluēmus diffluētis diffluent
perfect difflūxī difflūxistī difflūxit difflūximus difflūxistis difflūxērunt,
difflūxēre
pluperfect difflūxeram difflūxerās difflūxerat difflūxerāmus difflūxerātis difflūxerant
future perfect difflūxerō difflūxeris difflūxerit difflūxerimus difflūxeritis difflūxerint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present diffluam diffluās diffluat diffluāmus diffluātis diffluant
imperfect diffluerem diffluerēs difflueret diffluerēmus diffluerētis diffluerent
perfect difflūxerim difflūxerīs difflūxerit difflūxerīmus difflūxerītis difflūxerint
pluperfect difflūxissem difflūxissēs difflūxisset difflūxissēmus difflūxissētis difflūxissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — difflue — — diffluite —
future — diffluitō diffluitō — diffluitōte diffluuntō
non-finite forms infinitive participle
active passive active passive
present diffluere — diffluēns —
future difflūxūrum esse — difflūxūrus —
perfect difflūxisse — — —
perfect potential difflūxūrum fuisse — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
diffluendī diffluendō diffluendum diffluendō difflūxum difflūxū

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: difluir
  • French: diffluer
  • Portuguese: difluir
  • Spanish: difluir

References

  • “diffluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “diffluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • diffluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen extra ripas diffluit
    • to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate: otio diffluere
    • to wanton in the pleasures of sense: deliciis diffluere
    • to be abandoned to a life of excess: luxuria diffluere (Off. 1. 30. 106)
    • to be abandoned to a life of excess: omnium rerum copia diffluere
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