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Latin
Etymology
From ex- (“out of”) + fluō (“flow”).
Pronunciation
Verb
effluō (present infinitive effluere, perfect active efflūxī); third conjugation, no supine stem, limited passive
- (intransitive, of liquids) to flow or run forth or out; escape
- (intransitive, in general) to go out, issue forth
- (intransitive) to vanish, disappear, melt away
- (intransitive, figuratively) to pass away, vanish, disappear
- (intransitive) to leak out, become known, transpire
- (transitive) to cause to flow; to cause to escape
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References
- “effluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “effluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- effluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a thing escapes, vanishes from the memory: aliquid excidit e memoria, effluit, excidit ex animo