English
fiumara
Fiumara comes from Italian fiumara ‘a river or torrent with a large, pebbly…’, and goes back to Latin fluō ‘to flow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflūmen‘a river’
- Italianc. 1300–presentfiume‘river’
- Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentfiumara‘a river or torrent with a large, pebbly riverbed, which is dry outside of rainy season’
- Englishearliest quotation 1856same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflūmen‘a river’
- Italianc. 1300–presentfiume‘river’
- Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentfiumara‘a river or torrent with a large, pebbly riverbed, which is dry outside of rainy season’
- Englishearliest quotation 1856same form
Earliest quotation: 1856, Richard F. Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa: “Having skirted the sea for two hours, I rode…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to swell, blow’
blow, blast, inflation, flavor, bliss, bladder, feeble, inflate, flatulence, blithely, conflate, soufflé, blather, blasé, blare, bleat, 43 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti
through Latin fluō ‘to flow’
influence, fluid, influx, flux, fluent, confluence, fluency, fluctuate, fluctuation, affluence, fluorine, fluvial, fluorite, fluor, 25 more
through Latin flūmen ‘a river’
Today it means
noun A flooded river (or its riverbed), especially one running down from a mountain.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fluō / fiumara