fluvius
Latin
Alternative forms
- flouius, fluius
Etymology
From the root of fluō (“flow”), ultimately from *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow”), whence also flūmen.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɫʊ.wi.ʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfluː.vi.us]
- Note: the first two syllables are once found treated as one heavy, IPA(key): /flui̯.i̯-/, /fluː.i̯-/.[1]
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.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fluvius | fluviī |
| genitive | fluviī fluvī1 |
fluviōrum fluvium |
| dative | fluviō | fluviīs |
| accusative | fluvium | fluviōs |
| ablative | fluviō | fluviīs |
| vocative | fluvie | fluviī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
- fluviālis
- fluviātiō
- fluviātus
Related terms
- flūmen (“a major river”)
- fluō (“to flow, stream, pour”)
- fluviātilis (“river”, attributive)
Descendants
References
- “fluuius” on page 787 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
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.