profluent
English
Etymology
From Latin profluent, from profluere (“to flow forth”), from pro- + fluere (“to flow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒfluənt/, /ˈpɹɒfləwənt/
Adjective
profluent (comparative more profluent, superlative most profluent)
- Flowing smoothly as if in a stream.
- 1881, James Thomson (B. V.), “A Voice from the Nile”:
- My profluent waters perish not from life,
Absorbed into the ever-living sea
Whose life is in their full replenishment.
- My profluent waters perish not from life,
- 1881, James Thomson (B. V.), “A Voice from the Nile”:
Related terms
- profluence
Latin
Verb
prōfluent
- third-person plural future active indicative of prōfluō