Latin

Verb

effluō ‎(present infinitive effluere, perfect active effluxī); third conjugation, no passive

1. (intransitive, of liquids) I flow or run forth or out; escape.
2. (intransitive, in general) I go out, issue forth.
3. (intransitive) I vanish, disappear, melt away.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) I pass away, vanish, disappear.
5. (intransitive) I leak out, become known, transpire.

Inflection

Derived terms

• effluēscō
• effluus
• effluvium

Related terms

Descendants

References

• effluo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• effluo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “effluo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a thing escapes, vanishes from the memory: aliquid excidit e memoria, effluit, excidit ex animo