English
fluctus
Fluctus comes from Latin fluctus ‘a wave, billow’, and goes back to fluō ‘to flow, stream, pour’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō‘to flow, stream, pour’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluctus‘a wave, billow’
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō‘to flow, stream, pour’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluctus‘a wave, billow’
- Englishtodaysame form
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti
through Latin fluō ‘to flow, stream, pour’
influence, fluid, influx, fluent, flux, confluence, fluency, affluence, fluorine, flume, fluvial, fluorite, fluor, 27 more
Today it means
noun An area covered by outflow from a volcano.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fluō / fluctus