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effluo

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Latin

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Etymology

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From ex- (out of) +‎ fluō (flow).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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effluō (present infinitive effluere, perfect active efflūxī); third conjugation, no supine stem, limited passive

  1. (intransitive, of liquids) to flow or run forth or out; escape
  2. (intransitive, in general) to go out, issue forth
  3. (intransitive) to vanish, disappear, melt away
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) to pass away, vanish, disappear
  5. (intransitive) to leak out, become known, transpire
  6. (transitive) to cause to flow; to cause to escape

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Catalan: efluir
  • English: effluent
  • French: effluer
  • Galician: efluír
  • Italian: effluire
  • Portuguese: efluir
  • Spanish: efluir

References

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  • effluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • effluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • effluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a thing escapes, vanishes from the memory: aliquid excidit e memoria, effluit, excidit ex animo