profluent

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin profluent, from profluere (“to flow forth”), from pro- + fluere (“to flow”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒfluənt/, /ˈpɹɒfləwənt/

Adjective[edit]

profluent (comparative more profluent, superlative most profluent)

  1. Flowing smoothly as if in a stream.
    • 1881, James Thomson (B. V.), A Voice from the Nile:
      My profluent waters perish not from life,
      Absorbed into the ever-living sea
      Whose life is in their full replenishment.

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Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

prōfluent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of prōfluō
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