diffluo
Latin
Etymology
From dis- + fluō (“flow”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdif.flu.oː/, [ˈd̪ɪfːɫ̪uoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdif.flu.o/, [ˈd̪ifːluo]
Verb
diffluō (present infinitive diffluere, perfect active difflūxī, supine difflūxum); third conjugation, no passive
- (intransitive, of liquids) I flow or run away or in different directions.
- (intransitive) I dissolve, melt away, disappear.
- (intransitive, figuratively) I am dissolved in, abandoned to, waste away.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of diffluō (third conjugation, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | diffluō | diffluis | diffluit | diffluimus | diffluitis | diffluunt |
| imperfect | diffluēbam | diffluēbās | diffluēbat | diffluēbāmus | diffluēbātis | diffluēbant | |
| future | diffluam | diffluēs | diffluet | diffluēmus | diffluētis | diffluent | |
| perfect | difflūxī | difflūxistī | difflūxit | difflūximus | difflūxistis | difflūxērunt, difflūxēre | |
| pluperfect | difflūxeram | difflūxerās | difflūxerat | difflūxerāmus | difflūxerātis | difflūxerant | |
| future perfect | difflūxerō | difflūxeris | difflūxerit | difflūxerimus | difflūxeritis | difflūxerint | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | diffluam | diffluās | diffluat | diffluāmus | diffluātis | diffluant |
| imperfect | diffluerem | diffluerēs | difflueret | diffluerēmus | diffluerētis | diffluerent | |
| perfect | difflūxerim | difflūxerīs | difflūxerit | difflūxerīmus | difflūxerītis | difflūxerint | |
| pluperfect | difflūxissem | difflūxissēs | difflūxisset | difflūxissēmus | difflūxissētis | difflūxissent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | difflue | — | — | diffluite | — |
| future | — | diffluitō | diffluitō | — | diffluitōte | diffluuntō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | diffluere | difflūxisse | difflūxūrum esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | diffluēns | — | difflūxūrus | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| diffluendī | diffluendō | diffluendum | diffluendō | difflūxum | difflūxū | ||
Derived terms
- diffluus
- diffluxiō
Related terms
- affluō
- circumfluō
- cōnfluō
- dēfluō
- effluō
- fluō
- īnfluō
- interfluō
- perfluō
- praefluō
- praeterfluō
- prōfluō
- refluō
- subterfluō
- superfluō
- trānsfluō
Descendants
- Catalan: difluir
- French: diffluer
- Portuguese: difluir
- Spanish: difluir
References
- “diffluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “diffluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- diffluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen extra ripas diffluit
- to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate: otio diffluere
- to wanton in the pleasures of sense: deliciis diffluere
- to be abandoned to a life of excess: luxuria diffluere (Off. 1. 30. 106)
- to be abandoned to a life of excess: omnium rerum copia diffluere
- the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen extra ripas diffluit