flumen

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See also: flúmen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin flumen (“river”). Doublet of flume.

Noun

flumen (plural flumina)

  1. (astronomy, geology) In planetary geology, any of the river-like features on Saturn's moon Titan.

Latin

Etymology

From fluō (“I flow”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

flūmen n (genitive flūminis); third declension

  1. river
    Synonym: fluvius
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1:
      Gallōs ab Aquītānīs Garumna flūmen, ā Belgīs Mātrona et Sēquana dīvidit.
      The Garonne river separates the Gauls from the Aquitani; from the Belgae, the Marne and the Seine (separate them).
  2. (figuratively) flow, fluency, fluidity
    • 61 CE – c. 112 CE, Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 1.16:
      Omnia haec mire placent cum impetu quodam et flumine pervehuntur
      All these wondrously delight me and are carried along with a certain passion and flow.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

singular plural
nominative flūmen flūmina
genitive flūminis flūminum
dative flūminī flūminibus
accusative flūmen flūmina
ablative flūmine flūminibus
vocative flūmen flūmina

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “flumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “flumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • flumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to draw off water from a river: aquam ex flumine derivare
    • the rivers flows with a rapid current: flumen citatum fertur
    • a river swollen by the rain: flumen imbribus auctum
    • the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen super ripas effunditur
    • the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen extra ripas diffluit
    • the river floods the fields: flumen agros inundat
    • to wade across, to ford a river: flumen vado transire
    • with the stream; downstream: flumine secundo
    • against the stream; upstream: flumine adverso
    • flow of oratory: flumen orationis (De Or. 2. 15. 62)
    • senseless rant: inanium verborum flumen
    • to build a bridge over a river: pontem facere in flumine
    • to build a bridge over a river: flumen ponte iungere
    • there is a bridge over the river: pons est in flumine

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