fluency

English

Etymology

From Latin fluentia, cognate French fluence.

Noun

Wikipedia fluency (plural fluencies)

1. The quality of smoothness of flow
2. (linguistics) The quality of being fluent in a language; A person's command of a particular language.
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   • 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, BBC Sport:

     While Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had warned his players against letting the pre-match festivities distract them from the task at hand, they clearly struggled for fluency early on.

Translations

The qualities of smoothness of flow

Chinese: Mandarin: 流暢 (zh), 流畅 (zh) (liúchàng) German: Geläufigkeit (de) f.

Japanese: 流暢 (ja) (りゅうちょう, ryūchō) Romanian: fluiditate (ro) f., fluență (ro) f. Russian: беглость (ru) (béglost') f.

linguistics: being fluent in a language

Chinese: Mandarin: 流利 (zh) (liúlì) Esperanto: flueco (eo) German: Gewandtheit (de) f. Greek: ευφράδεια (el) (effràdeia) f., ευχέρεια (el) (efchéreia) f. Hebrew: רהיטות (he) (r'hitut)

Hindi: रवानी (hi) (ravānī) f. Icelandic: flæði (is) n. Japanese: ぺらぺら (ja) (perapera), 流暢 (ja) (りゅうちょう, ryūchō) Romanian: fluență (ro) f. Russian: свободное владение (ru) (svobódnoje vladénije) n.

References

• fluency in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913