confluens

Latin

Etymology

Present participle of cōnfluō (“to flow or run together”), from cōn- (“with, together”) +‎ fluō (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.flu.ens/, [ˈkõːfɫ̪uẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.flu.ens/, [ˈkɔɱfluens]

Participle

cōnfluēns (genitive cōnfluentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. present active participle of cōnfluō

Inflection

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	cōnfluēns			cōnfluentēs	cōnfluentia
Genitive	cōnfluentis			cōnfluentium
Dative	cōnfluentī			cōnfluentibus
Accusative	cōnfluentem	cōnfluēns		cōnfluentēs	cōnfluentia
Ablative	cōnfluentī			cōnfluentibus
Vocative	cōnfluēns			cōnfluentēs	cōnfluentia

Derived terms

• cōnfluentia (noun)

Descendants

• → English: confluent

Noun

cōnfluēns m (genitive cōnfluentis); third declension

1. a confluence (place where two rivers unite)

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnfluēns	cōnfluentēs
Genitive	cōnfluentis	cōnfluentum
Dative	cōnfluentī	cōnfluentibus
Accusative	cōnfluentem	cōnfluentēs
Ablative	cōnfluente	cōnfluentibus
Vocative	cōnfluēns	cōnfluentēs

Derived terms

• Cōnfluentēs

Descendants

• Toponyms derived from the plural cōnfluentēs:
  • Italian: Gonfienti
  • → Middle High German: Kobelenz
    • German: Koblenz
      • → English: Koblenz
• Learned borrowings:
  • → English: confluent
  • → French: confluent

References

• “confluens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “confluens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• confluens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• confluens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.