English
fluxion
Fluxion comes from Latin flūxus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflūxus
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEfluxiō
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600fluxion
- Englishearliest quotation 1907same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflūxus
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEfluxiō
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600fluxion
- Englishearliest quotation 1907same form
Earliest quotation: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey: “Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences,…”
Every English word from Latin flūxus
Today it means
noun The derivative of a function.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flūxus / fluxion