fluctus

English

Noun

fluctus (plural fluctus or flucti)

1. (astronomy, geology) An area covered by outflow from a volcano.

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Latin

Etymology

From fluō (“flow”) +‎ -tus (action noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfluːk.tus/, [ˈfɫ̪uːkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfluk.tus/, [ˈflukt̪us]

Noun

flūctus m (genitive flūctūs); fourth declension

1. a wave, billow

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	flūctus	flūctūs
Genitive	flūctūs	flūctuum
Dative	flūctuī	flūctibus
Accusative	flūctum	flūctūs
Ablative	flūctū	flūctibus
Vocative	flūctus	flūctūs

Related terms

• fluxus

Derived terms

• flucticulus
• fluctifragus
• fluctiger
• fluctisonus
• fluctivagus
• fluctuō
• fluctuōsus

 

Descendants

• English: fluctuation, flux
• French: flux
• Italian: fiotto, flutto

References

• “fluctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fluctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fluctus 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)
• fluctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • tossed hither and thither by the waves: fluctibus iactari
    
  • to be engulfed: fluctibus (undis) obrui,submergi
    
  • to enter the whirlpool of political strife: se civilibus fluctibus committere