English
fluerics
Fluerics may come from Latin fluo ‘to flow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluo‘to flow’uncertain
- Englishtodayfluerics
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluo‘to flow’uncertain
- Englishtodayfluerics
Formed from fluo ‘to flow’ + -ics
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to swell, blow’
blow, blast, inflation, flavor, bliss, bladder, feeble, inflate, blithely, flatulence, blare, conflate, blasé, bleat, soufflé, blather, 43 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti
through Latin fluo ‘to flow’
influence, fluid, influx, flux, fluent, confluence, fluctuate, fluctuation, fluency, flume, affluence, fluorine, fluvial, fluorite, fluor, 25 more
Today it means
noun A subfield of fluidics, dealing with fluid components that perform functions not requiring the use of moving parts.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fluo / fluerics