confluire
See also: confluiré
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin cōnfluere, with change of conjugation.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
confluìre (first-person singular present confluìsco, first-person singular past historic confluìi, past participle confluìto, auxiliary èssere or (rare) avére) (intransitive) [auxiliary essere or (rarely) avere]
- to flow together (of two rivers)
- to flow [+ in (another river) = into] (of a river)
- (by extension) to converge, to meet (of roads, pipelines, etc.)
- (figurative) to converge
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of confluìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Rare.
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ confluire in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- ^ influire in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading edit
- confluire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana