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defluo
defluo
Latin
Verb
dēfluō (present infinitive dēfluere, perfect active dēfluxī, supine dēfluxum); third conjugation
- (intransitive, of liquids) I flow or run down.
- (intransitive, in general) I move, float or swim downwards or downstream softly or gradually; flow or stream down; glide down, descend.
- (intransitive) I flow or pass away, drain off, cease flowing, disappear.
- (intransitive, figuratively) I flow, come, pass.
- (intransitive, figuratively) I cease, vanish, pass away, disappear; I am lost.
- (intransitive, figuratively) I am derived, descend.
Inflection
Derived terms
- dēfluus
- dēfluvium
- dēfluxiō
- dēfluxus
Related terms
Descendants
- Italian: defluire
- Portuguese: defluir
References
- defluo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- defluo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “defluo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.