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Latin
Etymology
From fluentum (“current, flow”) + -sonus (“sounding”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
fluentisonus (feminine fluentisona, neuter fluentisonum); first/second-declension adjective
- resounding with the sound of waves; undisonant
- Catullus, Poem 64, 52-54 (c. 60 BC):
Namque fluentisono prospectans litore Diae / Thesea cedentem celeri cum classe tuetur / indomitos in corde gerens Ariadna furores;- For there, looking forth from the wave-sounding shore of Dia, Ariadna sees Theseus, as he sails away with swift fleet, Ariadna bearing wild madness in her heart.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Synonyms
References
- “fluentisonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fluentisonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fluentisonus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- fluentisonus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016