fluxus Latin · revision 32459

+ {{homograph|1|flowing, loose}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *bʰleuH-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈfɫuːk.sʊs], [ˈfɫʊk.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈfluk.sus], [ˈfluk.sus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''flū̆xus''' (feminine flū̆xa, neuter flū̆xum, comparative flū̆xior); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The adjective is the perfect participle of [[m|la|fluō|t=to flow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary explains the unexpected ⟨x⟩ of the stem by analogy with pairs such as [[m|la|struō]] and [[m|la|strūxī]].^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|fluō]] to [[itc-pro|*flow-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰleuH-|t=to flow over]], comparing [[grc|φλύω|tr=phlúō|t=to boil over]] and [[lt|bliáuti|t=to bleat, sob]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus.^(Köbler 2010) The OLD's earliest example is in Lucretius, who compares the mind to a leaking, pierced vessel.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means flowing or liquid, as of the juices of purple shellfish in Pliny the Elder.^(OLD 2012) Of clothes and hair it is loose or streaming, and of weapons dangling: Livy has a sling's loose thong, Suetonius Caesar's loose belt, and Tacitus a woman with streaming hair shaking a thyrsus.^(OLD 2012) Of people and their limbs it is flabby or feeble, as young men's bodies in Columella, and of buildings crumbling, as walls decayed with age in Tacitus.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is unstable or fleeting: Sallust calls the glory of riches fleeting and fragile and young men's minds changeable.^(OLD 2012) Suetonius uses it of a loose, dissolute life.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it transitory.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of a leaking vessel.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust of fleeting glory.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English [[m|en|flux]] is borrowed through French or from Latin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|flowing|alt=Flowing]], liquid; of a vessel, leaking.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of clothes or hair, [[m|en|loose]], streaming; of weapons, dangling.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of people or limbs, flabby, feeble; of buildings, crumbling.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Unstable, uncertain; [[m|en|transitory]], fleeting; changeable.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Loose in morals, dissolute.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[flūxipedus]]

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+ {{homograph|2|flow}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=23/24–79 AD, Pliny the Elder|origins=ine-pro *bʰleuH-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈfɫuːk.sʊs], [ˈfɫʊk.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈfluk.sus], [ˈfluk.sus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''flū̆xus''' ''m'' (genitive flū̆xūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The noun is [[af|la|fluō|-tus|t1=to flow]], an action noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The TLL compares [[m|la|flūctus|t=wave]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Pliny the Elder, who uses it of a current of air.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a flowing or flow, a word Lewis & Short call post-Augustan: Pliny the Elder defines wind as a flow of air and tells of a fish that stops discharges from pregnant women, and Justinus has a flow of blood.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In medicine it is a discharge or flux.^(OLD 2012) Tertullian, the Vulgate, Augustine and Gregory the Great use it.^(TLL) Wiktionary notes a euphemistic Late Latin use for an emission of semen.^(Wiktionary) Church Latin glosses it issue, flux, flow, tide.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of a flow of air.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – the Vulgate uses it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A flowing, [[m|en|flow]]; a current.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(medicine)'' A [[m|en|discharge]], [[m|en|flux]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' An emission of semen.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fluo|alt=fluō]]

+ * [[fluctus|alt=flūctus]]

+ * [[en|flux]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}