profluvium

English

Etymology

Latin prōfluvium

Noun

profluvium (plural profluvia)

  1. A copious discharge of fluid, especially a bodily fluid.

Latin

Etymology

From prōfluō (“to flow forth, discharge”) +‎ -ium (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /doːˈflu.u̯i.um/, [d̪oːˈfɫ̪uː̯iʊ̃ˑ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /doˈflu.vi.um/, [d̪oˈfluːvium]

Noun

prōfluvium n (genitive prōfluviī or prōfluvī); second declension

  1. A flowing forth
  2. a discharge
  3. flux

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative prōfluvium prōfluvia
Genitive prōfluviī
prōfluvī1		 prōfluviōrum
Dative prōfluviō prōfluviīs
Accusative prōfluvium prōfluvia
Ablative prōfluviō prōfluviīs
Vocative prōfluvium prōfluvia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants
  • → English: profluvium
  • Italian: profluvio

References
  • “profluvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • profluvium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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