English
deflux
Deflux comes from Latin dēfluō ‘to flow or run down’, and goes back to fluō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō‘flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēfluōas defluere‘to flow or run down’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdefluxus
- Englishearliest quotation 1627deflux
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō‘flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēfluōas defluere‘to flow or run down’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdefluxus
- Englishearliest quotation 1627deflux
Earliest quotation: 1627, VII. Century.: “The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both…”
Linked words
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, 26 more
Today it means
noun downward flow
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fluō / deflux