Etymograph

English

Fiume

Fiume comes from Latin Flūmen ‘river’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEFlūmen‘river’
  2. Italianc. 1300–presentFiume
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2020same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEFlūmen‘river’
  2. Italianc. 1300–presentFiume
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2020same form

Earliest quotation: 2020, Dominique Kirchner Reill, The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire: “Christmas 1920 was not what locals had come to…”

Linked words

through Latin Flūmen ‘river’

flume, 3 more

Today it means

name Synonym of Rijeka, a city in Croatia.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin Flūmen / Fiume

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