fluito Latin · revision 32103

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *bʰleuH-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈfɫu.ɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈfluː.i.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fluitō''' (present infinitive fluitāre, perfect active fluitāvī, supine fluitātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Lucretius has the contracted ''flūtō'', Varro a deponent ''flūtor'', and Seneca and Pliny the Elder ''fluvitō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a frequentative [[af|la|fluō|-itō|t1=to flow]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|fluō]] to [[itc-pro|*flow-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰleuH-|t=to flow over]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|φλύω|tr=phlúō|t=to boil over]], [[m|grc|φλέω|tr=phléō|t=to abound]] and [[lt|bliáuti|t=to bleat, sob]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Lucretius,^(de Vaan 2008) who uses it of the sea flowing round in great windings, and of awnings stretched over great theatres that flap and stream.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to flow or run, of liquids, and to swarm or stream, of crowds, as in Petronius.^(OLD 2012) Most often it means to be carried along by the waves, to float or drift, as Virgil's ship drifting without its helmsman, and to float without sinking, as Cicero's floating sea beasts.^(OLD 2012) Of clothes and hair it means to hang loose or stream.^(OLD 2012) It also means to move unsteadily, waver, and figuratively to be uncertain.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Lewis & Short note that it is mostly poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the flowing sea and of streaming awnings.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of floating sea creatures.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a drifting ship.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius of swarming crowds.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # Of liquids, to [[m|en|flow]], run; of crowds, to swarm, stream.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To be carried by the waves, [[m|en|float]], [[m|en|drift]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of clothes or hair, to hang loose, stream, wave.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To move unsteadily, [[m|en|waver]]; to be uncertain.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fluo|alt=fluō]]

+ * [[fluctus|alt=flūctus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}