confluo
Latin
Etymology
From cōn- (“with, together”) + fluō (“to flow”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.flu.oː/, [ˈkõːfɫ̪uoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.flu.o/, [ˈkɔɱfluo]
Verb
cōnfluō (present infinitive cōnfluere, perfect active cōnflūxī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- (Classical Latin, intransitive) to flow or run together
- Synonyms: fluitō, fluō, affluō, īnfluō, praefluō, dēfluō, mānō
- (intransitive, figuratively) to flock or crowd together, to come together in multitudes; to throng, assemble
Inflection
| Conjugation of cōnfluō (third conjugation, no supine stem, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cōnfluō | cōnfluis | cōnfluit | cōnfluimus | cōnfluitis | cōnfluunt |
| imperfect | cōnfluēbam | cōnfluēbās | cōnfluēbat | cōnfluēbāmus | cōnfluēbātis | cōnfluēbant | |
| future | cōnfluam | cōnfluēs | cōnfluet | cōnfluēmus | cōnfluētis | cōnfluent | |
| perfect | cōnflūxī | cōnflūxistī | cōnflūxit | cōnflūximus | cōnflūxistis | cōnflūxērunt, cōnflūxēre | |
| pluperfect | cōnflūxeram | cōnflūxerās | cōnflūxerat | cōnflūxerāmus | cōnflūxerātis | cōnflūxerant | |
| future perfect | cōnflūxerō | cōnflūxeris | cōnflūxerit | cōnflūxerimus | cōnflūxeritis | cōnflūxerint | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | cōnfluam | cōnfluās | cōnfluat | cōnfluāmus | cōnfluātis | cōnfluant |
| imperfect | cōnfluerem | cōnfluerēs | cōnflueret | cōnfluerēmus | cōnfluerētis | cōnfluerent | |
| perfect | cōnflūxerim | cōnflūxerīs | cōnflūxerit | cōnflūxerīmus | cōnflūxerītis | cōnflūxerint | |
| pluperfect | cōnflūxissem | cōnflūxissēs | cōnflūxisset | cōnflūxissēmus | cōnflūxissētis | cōnflūxissent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | cōnflue | — | — | cōnfluite | — |
| future | — | cōnfluitō | cōnfluitō | — | cōnfluitōte | cōnfluuntō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | cōnfluere | cōnflūxisse | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | cōnfluēns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| cōnfluendī | cōnfluendō | cōnfluendum | cōnfluendō | — | — | ||
Derived terms
- cōnfluēns
- cōnfluentia
- cōnflūgēs
- cōnfluus
- cōnfluvium
Related terms
- affluō
- circumfluō
- dēfluō
- diffluō
- effluō
- fluō
- īnfluō
- interfluō
- perfluō
- praefluō
- praeterfluō
- prōfluō
- refluō
- subterfluō
- superfluō
- trānsfluō
Descendants
Descendants of cōnfluō in other languages
- → Catalan: confluir
- → French: confluer
- → Galician: confluír
- → Italian: confluire
- → Portuguese: confluir
- → Spanish: confluir
References
- “confluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to collect together at one spot: in unum locum convenire, confluere
- to collect together at one spot: in unum locum convenire, confluere