English
fluxure
Fluxure comes from Latin flūxūrus ‘a flowing’, and goes back to fluō ‘to flow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflūxūrusas flūxūra‘a flowing’
- Englishearliest quotation 1599fluxure
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflūxūrusas flūxūra‘a flowing’
- Englishearliest quotation 1599fluxure
Earliest quotation: 1599, Inductio: “Humor […] in it ſelfe holds theſe two properties,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to swell, blow’
blow, blast, inflation, flavor, bliss, bladder, feeble, inflate, blithely, flatulence, blather, conflate, blasé, blare, bleat, soufflé, 44 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti
through Latin fluō ‘to flow’
influence, fluid, fluent, influx, confluence, fluctuate, fluency, fluctuation, affluence, fluorine, flume, fluvial, fluorite, fluor, 26 more
Today it means
noun The quality of being fluid; fluidity.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fluō / fluxure