perfluo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈper.flu.oː/, [ˈpɛrfɫ̪uoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈper.flu.o/, [ˈpɛrfluo]
Verb edit
perfluō (present infinitive perfluere, perfect active perflūxī, supine perflūxum); third conjugation, impersonal in the passive
- (transitive) to flow or run through something
- (intransitive) to flow or run through
- (intransitive) to drip with something
- (intransitive, of garments) to flow, stream or float
- (intransitive, figuratively) to cannot keep a secret; to leak
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References edit
- “perfluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “perfluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- perfluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.