English
confluence
Confluence comes from Late Latin cōnfluentia ‘a flowing together, conflux’, and goes back to Latin fluō ‘to flow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnfluō‘to flow or run together’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnfluēns
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEcōnfluentia‘a flowing together, conflux’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500confluence
- Englishearliest quotation 1937confluence
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnfluō‘to flow or run together’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnfluēns
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEcōnfluentia‘a flowing together, conflux’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500confluence
- Englishearliest quotation 1937confluence
Earliest quotation: 1937, An Outline of the Manchoukuo-Soviet Border Controversy: “There has been much controversy especially as to the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to swell, blow’
blow, blast, flavor, bliss, inflation, bladder, feeble, inflate, blithely, blare, blather, blasé, bleat, soufflé, flatulence, 46 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti
through Latin fluō ‘to flow’
fluid, influence, flux, fluent, fluctuate, fluctuation, flume, fluorine, fluency, fluvial, fluorite, affluence, fluor, 27 more
Today it means
noun The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fluō / confluence