English
superfluitant
Superfluitant comes from Latin super ‘above’, and goes back to fluō ‘to flow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluōas fluere‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuper‘above’
- Englishtodaysuperfluitant
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluōas fluere‘to flow’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuper‘above’
- Englishtodaysuperfluitant
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to swell, blow’
blow, blast, inflation, flavor, bliss, bladder, feeble, inflate, flatulence, blare, blithely, conflate, blasé, soufflé, bleat, blather, 43 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti
through Latin fluō ‘to flow’
influence, fluid, influx, flux, fluent, confluence, fluency, fluctuate, fluctuation, flume, affluence, fluorine, fluvial, fluorite, fluor, 25 more
through Latin super ‘above’
Today it means
adj Floating above or on the surface.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fluō / superfluitant