fluo

From flui +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfluo/

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• Rhymes: -uo
• Hyphenation: flu‧o

fluo (accusative singular fluon, plural fluoj, accusative plural fluojn)

1. current, stream

From Esperanto fluo.

• IPA^(key): /fluo/

fluo (plural flui)

1. current

• IPA^(key): /ˈflu.o/
• Rhymes: -uo
• Hyphenation: flù‧o

fluo (invariable)

1. (slang) fluorescent

• flou

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH- (“to overflow”), possibly an extension of *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow”). The Latin form may have developed from earlier *flowō via vowel reduction (which was regular only in non-initial syllables, but may have been introduced to the simple verb by analogy with its compounds) from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleuH-(e/o).^[1] Alternatively, it may go back to Proto-Italic *flūō, from earlier *flūjō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti.^[2] Cognate with Ancient Greek φλέω (phléō, “to abound”), φλύω (phlúō, “to boil over”). Unrelated to English flow, despite phonological and semantic similarity.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɫu.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfluː.o]

fluō (present infinitive fluere, perfect active flūxī, supine flūxum or flūctum); third conjugation, no passive

1. to flow, stream, pour

   Synonyms: fluitō, affluō, cōnfluō, īnfluō, praefluō, dēfluō, mānō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 8.445:

     Fluit aes rīvīs aurīque metallum, vulnificusque chalybs vastā fornāce liquēscit.

     Bronze and golden ore flowed in streams, and steel, that deals wounds, melted in a vast furnace.

2. to be soaked in

Note: this verb has no inherited descendants.

• “fluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • far and wide; on all sides; everywhere: longe lateque, passim (e.g. fluere)
    
  • these things have the same origin: haec ex eodem fonte fluunt, manant
    
  • Pythagoras' principles were widely propagated: Pythagorae doctrina longe lateque fluxit (Tusc. 4. 1. 2)
    
  • things seem tending towards an interregnum: res fluit ad interregnum
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

fluo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fluir