fluenter

From fluentis + -ter.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɫuˈɛn.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fluˈɛn.ter]
• Hyphenation: flu‧en‧ter

fluenter (not comparable) (very rare)

1. (of lax and unrestrained speech) flowingly, wavingly (in a flowing, waving manner)
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6.520, (sometimes wrongly scanned as fluenter, per Karl Lachmann):

     cōnsuērunt, ubĭ multa cientur sēmina aquārum

     they are accustomed, where many seeds of water are stirred up

   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6.931–932, (also 4.225–226):

     usque adeō omnibus ab rēbus rēs quæque fluenter ¶ fertur et in cūnctās dīmittitur undique partīs

     so much so that from all things every thing is carried in a constant flow and is sent out in every direction on all sides

   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.16.21, (quoted in L&S):

     capillō fluenter undante

     with hair smoothly flowing

• “flŭenter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fluenter in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2798
• “fluenter”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 676.
• Latino-Sinicum [translated as: 流然 (liú rán); 順／顺 (shùn); 不止 (bùzhǐ)], in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011