effluo

Latin

Etymology

From ex- (out of) +‎ fluō (flow).

Pronunciation

Verb

effluō (present infinitive effluere, perfect active efflūxī); third conjugation, no supine stem, third person-only in the passive

  1. (intransitive, of liquids) to flow or run forth or out; escape
  2. (intransitive, in general) to go out, issue forth
  3. (intransitive) to vanish, disappear, melt away
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) to pass away, vanish, disappear
  5. (intransitive) to leak out, become known, transpire
  6. (transitive) to cause to flow; to cause to escape

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: efluir
  • English: effluent
  • French: effluer
  • Galician: efluír
  • Italian: effluire
  • Portuguese: efluir
  • Spanish: efluir

References

  • effluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • effluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • effluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a thing escapes, vanishes from the memory: aliquid excidit e memoria, effluit, excidit ex animo