diffluo
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdif.flu.oː/, [ˈd̪ɪfːɫ̪uoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdif.flu.o/, [ˈd̪ifːluo]
Verb edit
diffluō (present infinitive diffluere, perfect active difflūxī, supine difflūxum); third conjugation, no passive
- (intransitive, of liquids) to flow or run away or in different directions
- (intransitive) to dissolve, melt away, disappear
- (intransitive, figuratively) to be dissolved in, abandoned to, waste away
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References edit
- “diffluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “diffluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- diffluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen extra ripas diffluit
- to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate: otio diffluere
- to wanton in the pleasures of sense: deliciis diffluere
- to be abandoned to a life of excess: luxuria diffluere (Off. 1. 30. 106)
- to be abandoned to a life of excess: omnium rerum copia diffluere
- the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen extra ripas diffluit