effuse

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French effuser, from Latin effusus, past participle of effundere (to pour out).

Pronunciation

Adjective

effuse (comparative more effuse, superlative most effuse)

  1. Poured out freely; profuse.
    • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Nativity of our Lord tidings of great Joy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. , volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A J Valpy, , published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
      So should our joy be very effuse.
  2. Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
  3. (botany) Spreading loosely, especially on one side.
    an effuse inflorescence
  4. (zoology) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.

Verb

effuse (third-person singular simple present effuses, present participle effusing, simple past and past participle effused)

  1. (transitive) To emit; to give off.
  2. (figuratively) To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something.
  3. (intransitive) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
      With gushing blood effused.
  4. (intransitive) To leak out through a small hole.

Translations

Noun

effuse

  1. (obsolete) effusion; loss

Derived terms

Italian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

effuse

  1. third-person singular past historic of effondere

Etymology 2

Participle

effuse f pl

  1. feminine plural of effuso

References

  1. ^ confuso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Latin

Participle

effūse

  1. vocative masculine singular of effūsus

References

  • effuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • effuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • effuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.