profluvium

From Latin prōfluvium.

profluvium (plural profluvia)

1. A copious discharge of fluid, especially a bodily fluid.

From prōfluō (“to flow forth, discharge”) +‎ -ium (noun-forming suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [doːˈfɫʊ.wi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪oˈfluː.vi.um]

prōfluvium n (genitive prōfluviī or prōfluvī); second declension

1. A flowing forth
2. a discharge
3. flux

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• → English: profluvium
• Italian: profluvio

• “profluvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• profluvium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.