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diffluo
diffluo
Latin
Verb
diffluō (present infinitive diffluere, perfect active diffluxī, supine diffluxum); third conjugation
- (intransitive, of liquids) I flow or run away or in different directions.
- (intransitive) I dissolve, melt away, disappear.
- (intransitive, figuratively) I am dissolved in, abandoned to, waste away.
Inflection
Derived terms
- diffluus
- diffluxiō
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: difluir
- French: diffluer
- Portuguese: difluir
- Spanish: difluir
References
- diffluo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- diffluo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “diffluo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen extra ripas diffluit
- to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate: otio diffluere
- to wanton in the pleasures of sense: deliciis diffluere
- to be abandoned to a life of excess: luxuria diffluere (Off. 1. 30. 106)
- to be abandoned to a life of excess: omnium rerum copia diffluere
- the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen extra ripas diffluit