English
profluent
Profluent comes from Latin profluens ‘flowing or running forth or along, discharging’, and goes back to fluō ‘to flow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluōas fluere‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEprofluere‘to flow forth’next step skipped: Latin prōfluō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEprofluens‘flowing or running forth or along, discharging’
- Englishearliest quotation 1881profluent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluōas fluere‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEprofluere‘to flow forth’next step skipped: Latin prōfluō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEprofluens‘flowing or running forth or along, discharging’
- Englishearliest quotation 1881profluent
Earliest quotation: 1881, James Thomson: “My profluent waters perish not from life, Absorbed into…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to swell, blow’
blow, blast, inflation, flavor, bliss, bladder, feeble, inflate, blithely, blare, flatulence, blather, conflate, blasé, bleat, soufflé, 44 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti
through Latin fluō ‘to flow’
influence, fluid, influx, flux, fluctuate, fluctuation, confluence, flume, fluorine, fluency, affluence, fluvial, fluorite, fluor, confluent, 25 more
Today it means
adj Flowing smoothly as if in a stream.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fluō / profluent