English
defluous
Defluous comes from Latin defluere ‘to flow down’, and goes back to fluō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluōas fluere‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdefluere‘to flow down’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdefluus
- Englishearliest quotation 1822defluous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluōas fluere‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdefluere‘to flow down’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdefluus
- Englishearliest quotation 1822defluous
Earliest quotation: 1822, Thomas Taylor: “Her most copious and long hairs[…]were softly defluous.”
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, 43 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti
through Latin fluō ‘to flow’
influence, fluid, influx, fluent, flux, confluence, fluctuate, fluency, fluctuation, affluence, flume, fluorine, fluvial, fluorite, fluor, 25 more
Today it means
adj Flowing down; falling off.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fluō / defluous