interfluo Latin · revision 32981

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=59 BC–17 AD, Livy|origins=ine-pro *bʰleuH-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪnˈtɛr.fɫu.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [inˈtɛr.flu.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''interfluō''' (present infinitive interfluere, perfect active interflūxī); third conjugation, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|inter-|fluō|t2=to flow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|fluō]] to [[itc-pro|*flow-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰleuH-|t=to flow (over)]], comparing [[grc|φλέω|tr=phléō|t=to abound]] and [[m|grc|φλύω|tr=phlúō|t=to seethe, boil over]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Livy on, a split form in Lucretius being doubtful.^(TLL) Livy uses it of a torrent with little water flowing between banks, and of the strait that flows between Naupactus and Patrae.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is said of rivers and straits flowing between or through places, without an object or with one: Pliny the Elder has a narrow strait flowing between, and Tacitus the river Weser flowing past the Romans, and Florus the Tiber flowing through the city.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus also uses it of things floating in among others: pack animals, baggage and dead bodies drift among the soldiers.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it rare but classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a strait and a torrent.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of things floating among others.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # Of rivers or [[m|en|strait|alt=straits]], to [[m|en|flow]] between or through; with an object, to flow between (places).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|float]] in among.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[interfluus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fluo|alt=fluō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}