fluxus

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

Noun

fluxus (plural fluxusok)

  1. (electricity) flux

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative fluxus fluxusok
accusative fluxust fluxusokat
dative fluxusnak fluxusoknak
instrumental fluxussal fluxusokkal
causal-final fluxusért fluxusokért
translative fluxussá fluxusokká
terminative fluxusig fluxusokig
essive-formal fluxusként fluxusokként
essive-modal — —
inessive fluxusban fluxusokban
superessive fluxuson fluxusokon
adessive fluxusnál fluxusoknál
illative fluxusba fluxusokba
sublative fluxusra fluxusokra
allative fluxushoz fluxusokhoz
elative fluxusból fluxusokból
delative fluxusról fluxusokról
ablative fluxustól fluxusoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		fluxusé fluxusoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		fluxuséi fluxusokéi
Possessive forms of fluxus
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. fluxusom fluxusaim
2nd person sing. fluxusod fluxusaid
3rd person sing. fluxusa fluxusai
1st person plural fluxusunk fluxusaink
2nd person plural fluxusotok fluxusaitok
3rd person plural fluxusuk fluxusaik

Latin

Pronunciation

Note: while the root vowel is generally thought to have been long in Classical Latin, Romance descendants point rather to its being short. Compare lū̆xus.

Etymology 1

From fluō (“flow”) +‎ -tus (action noun-forming suffix). The unexpected /g~k/ in this perfect stem may be a result of proportional analogy with struō :: strūxī and vīvō :: vīxī. Compare flūctus.

Noun

flū̆xus m (genitive flū̆xūs); fourth declension

  1. flow
  2. flux
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative flū̆xus flū̆xūs
Genitive flū̆xūs flū̆xuum
Dative flū̆xuī flū̆xibus
Accusative flū̆xum flū̆xūs
Ablative flū̆xū flū̆xibus
Vocative flū̆xus flū̆xūs
Descendants

Note: unlike the adjective, the noun has left no inherited descendants.

  • → Catalan: flux
  • → English: flux, → Fluxus
  • → French: flux
  • → Friulian: flus
  • → Galician: fluxo
  • → Italian: flusso
  • → Portuguese: fluxo
  • → Old Spanish: fluxo
  • → Venetian: fluso

Etymology 2

See Etymology 1.

Adjective

flū̆xus (feminine flū̆xa, neuter flū̆xum, comparative flū̆xior); first/second-declension adjective

  1. flowing, fluid
  2. loose
  3. transient, transitory, fleeting
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative flūxus flūxa flūxum flūxī flūxae flūxa
Genitive flūxī flūxae flūxī flūxōrum flūxārum flūxōrum
Dative flūxō flūxō flūxīs
Accusative flūxum flūxam flūxum flūxōs flūxās flūxa
Ablative flūxō flūxā flūxō flūxīs
Vocative flūxe flūxa flūxum flūxī flūxae flūxa
Descendants

References

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fluxus (adj.)”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 647
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fluō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 228
  3. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fluxus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 646

Further reading

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