English
fluvial
Fluvial comes from Latin fluvius ‘a stream’, and goes back to fluō ‘to flow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluōas fluere, root‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluvius‘a stream’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluviālis
- Englishearliest quotation 2021fluvial
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluōas fluere, root‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluvius‘a stream’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluviālis
- Englishearliest quotation 2021fluvial
Earliest quotation: 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay: “...that's where I remember the vertigo, surrendering to that…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to swell, blow’
blow, blast, inflation, flavor, bliss, bladder, feeble, inflate, blithely, flatulence, blare, blather, conflate, blasé, bleat, soufflé, 44 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti
through Latin fluō ‘to flow’
influence, fluid, influx, fluent, flux, confluence, fluctuate, fluency, fluctuation, affluence, fluorine, flume, fluorite, fluor, 26 more
Today it means
adj Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fluō / fluvial