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-/. === Noun === fluvius m (genitive fluviī or fluvī); second declension a stream, smaller river Synonyms: flūmen, amnis, rīvus the stream of a river, a current, torrent (transferred sense) (said of blood, sweat etc.) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== 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, 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.