effuse

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French effuser, from Latin effusus, past participle of effundere (“to pour out”).

Adjective

effuse (comparative more effuse, superlative most effuse)

1. Poured out freely; profuse.
   • (Can we date this quote by Barrow and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     So should our joy be very effuse.

2. Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.

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3. (botany) Spreading loosely, especially on one side.

   an effuse inflorescence

4. (zoology) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.

Verb

1. (transitive) to emit; to give off
2. (figuratively) to gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something
3. (intransitive) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
   • (Can we date this quote by Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     With gushing blood effused.

4. (intransitive) to leak out through a small hole

Translations

to talk excitedly

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Noun

effuse

1. (obsolete) effusion; loss
   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Much effuse of blood.

Derived terms

• effuser

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Italian

Verb

effuse

1. third-person singular past historic of effondere

effuse f

1. plural of effuso

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) effūse

1. vocative masculine singular of effūsus

References

• “effuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “effuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• effuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.