English
fluidity
Fluidity comes from Latin fluidus ‘liquid, fluid, flowing’, and goes back to fluō ‘to flow, stream, pour’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō‘to flow, stream, pour’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluidus‘liquid, fluid, flowing’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluiditās
- Frenchc. 1600–presentfluidité
- Englishearliest quotation 1944fluidity
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō‘to flow, stream, pour’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluidus‘liquid, fluid, flowing’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluiditās
- Frenchc. 1600–presentfluidité
- Englishearliest quotation 1944fluidity
Earliest quotation: 1944, and December, The French Four-Cylinder Compound Engine: “In addition to all this, the fluidity of the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti
through Latin fluō ‘to flow, stream, pour’
influence, influx, fluent, flux, confluence, fluctuate, fluency, fluctuation, affluence, flume, fluorine, fluvial, fluorite, fluor, 26 more
Today it means
noun The state of being fluid rather than viscous
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fluō / fluidity