fluvius

Latin

Alternative forms

• flouius, fluius

Etymology

From the root of fluō (“flow”), ultimately from *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow”), whence also flūmen.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɫʊ.wi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfluː.vi.us]
• Note: the first two syllables are once found treated as one heavy, IPA^(key): /flui̯.i̯-/, /fluː.i̯-/.

Noun

fluvius m (genitive fluviī or fluvī); second declension

1. a stream, smaller river

   Synonyms: flūmen, amnis, rīvus

2. the stream of a river, a current, torrent
   1. (transferred sense) (said of blood, sweat etc.)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fluvius	fluviī
genitive	fluviī fluvī1	fluviōrum fluvium
dative	fluviō	fluviīs
accusative	fluvium	fluviōs
ablative	fluviō	fluviīs
vocative	fluvie	fluviī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• fluviālis
• fluviātiō
• fluviātus

Related terms

• flūmen (“a major river”)
• fluō (“to flow, stream, pour”)
• fluviātilis (“river”, attributive)

Descendants

• Old French: flue, fluie
• →? French: fleuve (via confluence from Old Norse flóð)
• → Romanian: fluviu

References

• “fluuius” on page 787 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• “fluvius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fluvius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fluvius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fluvius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.