effluo

effluo

Latin

Etymology

    From ex- (out of) + fluō (flow).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    effluō (present infinitive effluere, perfect active efflūxī); third conjugation, no supine stem, third person-only in the passive

    1. (intransitive, of liquids) to flow or run forth or out; escape
    2. (intransitive, in general) to go out, issue forth
    3. (intransitive) to vanish, disappear, melt away
    4. (intransitive, figuratively) to pass away, vanish, disappear
    5. (intransitive) to leak out, become known, transpire
    6. (transitive) to cause to flow; to cause to escape

    Conjugation

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Catalan: efluir
    • English: effluent
    • French: effluer
    • Galician: efluír
    • Italian: effluire
    • Portuguese: efluir
    • Spanish: efluir

    References

    • effluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • effluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • effluo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • a thing escapes, vanishes from the memory: aliquid excidit e memoria, effluit, excidit ex animo