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): /ˈflu.oː/, [ˈfɫ̪uoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈflu.o/, [ˈfluːo]

fluō (present infinitive fluere, perfect active flūxī, supine flūxum); 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

• The fourth principal part may also be flūctum.

Conjugation of fluō (third conjugation, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	fluō	fluis	fluit	fluimus	fluitis	fluunt
	imperfect	fluēbam	fluēbās	fluēbat	fluēbāmus	fluēbātis	fluēbant
	future	fluam	fluēs	fluet	fluēmus	fluētis	fluent
	perfect	flūxī	flūxistī	flūxit	flūximus	flūxistis	flūxērunt, flūxēre
	pluperfect	flūxeram	flūxerās	flūxerat	flūxerāmus	flūxerātis	flūxerant
	future perfect	flūxerō	flūxeris	flūxerit	flūxerimus	flūxeritis	flūxerint
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	fluam	fluās	fluat	fluāmus	fluātis	fluant
	imperfect	fluerem	fluerēs	flueret	fluerēmus	fluerētis	fluerent
	perfect	flūxerim	flūxerīs	flūxerit	flūxerīmus	flūxerītis	flūxerint
	pluperfect	flūxissem	flūxissēs	flūxisset	flūxissēmus	flūxissētis	flūxissent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	flue	—	—	fluite	—
	future	—	fluitō	fluitō	—	fluitōte	fluuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		fluere	flūxisse	flūxūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		fluēns	—	flūxūrus	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		fluendī	fluendō	fluendum	fluendō	flūxum	flūxū

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