English
confluent
Confluent comes from Latin cōnfluō ‘to flow or run together’, and goes back to fluō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnfluō‘to flow or run together’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnfluēns
- Englishearliest quotation 1801confluent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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
- Englishearliest quotation 1801confluent
Earliest quotation: 1801, Robert Southey, (please specify the page): “Yonder the river roll’d, whose bed, Their labyrinthine lingerings…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to swell, blow’
blow, blast, flavor, bliss, inflation, bladder, feeble, inflate, blithely, blare, flatulence, blather, blasé, bleat, soufflé, 47 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti
through Latin fluō ‘to flow’
influence, fluid, flux, fluctuate, fluctuation, flume, fluorine, fluency, affluence, fluvial, fluorite, fluor, 28 more
Today it means
adj Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fluō / confluent