English
Fluxus
Fluxus may come from Latin flūxus ‘flow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflūxus‘flow’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1976Fluxus
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflūxus‘flow’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1976Fluxus
Earliest quotation: 1976, Grace Glueck, Art People: “Other attractions include a documentation center for the activities…”
The story
Coined by Lithuanian American artist George Maciunas in 1961 as the title of a proposed magazine, from Latin flūxus (‘flow’).
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to swell, blow’
blow, blast, inflation, flavor, bliss, bladder, feeble, inflate, blithely, flatulence, blare, blather, conflate, blasé, bleat, soufflé, 45 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti
through Latin fluō ‘flow’
influence, fluid, fluent, influx, confluence, fluctuate, fluency, fluctuation, affluence, fluorine, flume, fluvial, fluorite, fluor, 27 more
Today it means
name An international movement of artists, poets, composers and designers of the 1960s and 1970s, noted for experimental syntheses of different media and disciplines.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flūxus / Fluxus