confluentia
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom cōnfluēns (present participle of cōnfluō (“to flow or run together”)) + -ia (nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kon.fluˈen.ti.a/, [kõːfɫ̪uˈɛn̪t̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.fluˈen.t͡si.a/, [koɱfluˈɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
Noun
editcōnfluentia f (genitive cōnfluentiae); first declension (Late Latin)
- a flowing together, conflux; a confluence
Inflection
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cōnfluentia | cōnfluentiae |
Genitive | cōnfluentiae | cōnfluentiārum |
Dative | cōnfluentiae | cōnfluentiīs |
Accusative | cōnfluentiam | cōnfluentiās |
Ablative | cōnfluentiā | cōnfluentiīs |
Vocative | cōnfluentia | cōnfluentiae |
Descendants
edit- Catalan: confluència
- → Middle English: confluens, confluence
- English: confluence
- Italian: confluenza
- Portuguese: confluência
- Spanish: confluencia
References
edit- “confluentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press