fluxus

== Hungarian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈfluksuʃ] Hyphenation: flu‧xus Rhymes: -uʃ === Noun === fluxus (plural fluxusok) (electricity) flux ==== Declension ==== == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɫuːk.sʊs], [ˈfɫʊk.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfluk.sus] Note: while the root vowel is generally thought to have been long in Classical Latin, Romance descendants point rather to its being short. Compare lū̆xus. === Etymology 1 === From fluō (“flow”) +‎ -tus (action noun-forming suffix). The unexpected /g~k/ in this perfect stem may be a result of proportional analogy with struō :: strūxī and vīvō :: vīxī. Compare flūctus. ==== Noun ==== flū̆xus m (genitive flū̆xūs); fourth declension flow flux (Late Latin, euphemistic) emission (of semen) Synonym: ēmissiō ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== Note: unlike the adjective, the noun has left no inherited descendants. === Etymology 2 === See Etymology 1. ==== Adjective ==== flū̆xus (feminine flū̆xa, neuter flū̆xum, comparative flū̆xior); first/second-declension adjective flowing, fluid loose transient, transitory, fleeting ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Descendants ===== Catalan: fluix Galician: frouxo Italian: frocio, froscio Portuguese: chocho, frouxo, froixo Old Spanish: floxo Ladino: flosho Spanish: flojo → Italian: floscio Sicilian: frocia, froscia === References === === Further reading === “fluxus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fluxus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "fluxus", 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) “fluxus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.