fluo

flui +‎ -o

• IPA^(key): /ˈfluo/
• Hyphenation: flu‧o

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

1. current, stream

From Esperanto fluo.

fluo (plural flui)

1. current

• From Proto-Italic *flowō [1], from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlew-, possibly from *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, flow”). Cognate with Ancient Greek φλέω (phléō, “to abound”), φλύω (phlúō, “to boil over”).
• Some do not exclude the supposition of it being from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”) (with sr- > θr- > fr-), with contamination from pluit.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈflu.oː/, [ˈfɫʊ.oː]

fluō (present infinitive fluere, perfect active fluxī, supine fluxum); third conjugation

1. I flow, stream, pour
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 8.445:

     Fluit aes riuis aurique metallum, uulnificusque chalybs uasta fornace liquescit.

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

2. I am soaked in

• The fourth principal part may also be fluctum.

• 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, 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 (eu) present indicative of fluir