confluentia

Latin

Etymology

From cōnfluēns (present participle of cōnfluō (“to flow or run together”)) +‎ -ia (nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.fluˈen.ti.a/, [kõːfɫ̪uˈɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.fluˈen.t͡si.a/, [koɱfluˈɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

cōnfluentia f (genitive cōnfluentiae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. a flowing together, conflux; a confluence

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnfluentia	cōnfluentiae
Genitive	cōnfluentiae	cōnfluentiārum
Dative	cōnfluentiae	cōnfluentiīs
Accusative	cōnfluentiam	cōnfluentiās
Ablative	cōnfluentiā	cōnfluentiīs
Vocative	cōnfluentia	cōnfluentiae

Descendants

• Catalan: confluència
• → Middle English: confluens, confluence
  • English: confluence
• Italian: confluenza
• Portuguese: confluência
• Spanish: confluencia

References

• “confluentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press