Etymograph

English

interfluent

Interfluent comes from Latin interfluens.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinterfluens
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1659interfluent

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinterfluens
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1659interfluent

Earliest quotation: 1659, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall: “Air may consist of any terrene or aqueous corpuscles,…”

Today it means

adj flowing into one another.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin interfluens / interfluent