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influo

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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influi +‎ -o

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • IPA(key): [inˈfluo]
  • Rhymes: -uo
  • Hyphenation: in‧flu‧o

Noun

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influo (accusative singular influon, plural influoj, accusative plural influojn)

  1. influence (power to affect, control, or manipulate)

Ido

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Noun

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influo (plural influi)

  1. influence

Latin

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ fluō (flow).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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īnfluō (present infinitive īnfluere, perfect active īnflūxī, supine īnflūxum); third conjugation, third person-only in the passive

  1. (of fluids) to flow or run into
    Synonyms: fluitō, fluō, affluō, cōnfluō, praefluō, dēfluō, mānō
  2. (in general) to stream, rush or press into
  3. (figuratively) to throng or stream in; enter in large numbers
  4. (figuratively) to steal or insinuate oneself into, invade
  5. (intransitive/transitive, Medieval Latin) to exercise influence
    Synonyms: perpellō, afficiō

Conjugation

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Passive forms for this verb exist in Medieval Latin for the third-person singular and plural.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Catalan: influir
  • French: influer
  • Galician: influír
  • Italian: influire
  • Portuguese: influir
  • Spanish: influir

References

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  • influo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • influo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • influo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • his words find an easy hearing, are listened to with pleasure: oratio in aures influit

Portuguese

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Verb

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influo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of influir