fluvius

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the root of fluō (flow), ultimately from *bʰleh₁- (to swell, blow), whence also flūmen.

Pronunciation

Noun

fluvius m (genitive fluviī or fluvī); second declension

  1. a stream, smaller river
    Synonym: flūmen
  2. the stream of a river, a current, torrent
    1. (transferred sense) (said of blood, sweat etc.)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • French: fleuve
  • Romanian: fluviu

References

Further reading

  • fluvius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fluvius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fluvius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • fluvius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.