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Latin
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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
- a stream, smaller river
- Synonym: flūmen
- the stream of a river, a current, torrent
- (transferred sense) (said of blood, sweat etc.)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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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.