Fluonia

Latin

Alternative forms

• Fluviōnia, Fluvōnia

Etymology

fluō (“I flow”) +‎ -ōnia

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fluˈoː.ni.a/, [fɫ̪uˈoːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fluˈo.ni.a/, [fluˈɔːniä]

Proper noun

Fluōnia f sg (genitive Fluōniae); first declension

1. an epithet of Juno
   • 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 92, line 15:

     Fluoniam Iunonem mulieres colebant, quod eam sanguinis fluorem in conceptu retinere putabant.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Fluōnia
Genitive	Fluōniae
Dative	Fluōniae
Accusative	Fluōniam
Ablative	Fluōniā
Vocative	Fluōnia

References

• “Flŭōnĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Fluōnia” on page 717/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)