English
fluminous
Fluminous comes from Latin flūmen ‘flowing water’, and goes back to fluō ‘to flow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflūmen‘flowing water’
- Englishearliest quotation 1989fluminous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflūmen‘flowing water’
- Englishearliest quotation 1989fluminous
Earliest quotation: 1989, Anthony Burgess: “‘By God, you speak our British language, as we…”
Formed from -ous
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to swell, blow’
blow, blast, flavor, inflation, bliss, bladder, feeble, inflate, blithely, flatulence, blare, blather, conflate, blasé, bleat, soufflé, 43 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti
influx, fluidity, confluent, 23 more
through Latin fluō ‘to flow’
influence, fluid, fluent, flux, confluence, fluctuate, fluency, fluctuation, affluence, fluorine, fluvial, fluorite, fluor, 26 more
through Latin flūmen ‘flowing water’
Today it means
adj flowing, fluent (of rivers)
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fluō / fluminous