confluo

Latin

Etymology

From cōn- (“with, together”) +‎ fluō (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.flu.oː/, [ˈkõːfɫ̪uoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.flu.o/, [ˈkɔɱfluo]

Verb

cōnfluō (present infinitive cōnfluere, perfect active cōnflūxī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. (Classical Latin, intransitive) to flow or run together

   Synonyms: fluitō, fluō, affluō, īnfluō, praefluō, dēfluō, mānō

2. (intransitive, figuratively) to flock or crowd together, to come together in multitudes; to throng, assemble

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Conjugation

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cōnfluō	cōnfluis	cōnfluit	cōnfluimus	cōnfluitis	cōnfluunt
	imperfect	cōnfluēbam	cōnfluēbās	cōnfluēbat	cōnfluēbāmus	cōnfluēbātis	cōnfluēbant
	future	cōnfluam	cōnfluēs	cōnfluet	cōnfluēmus	cōnfluētis	cōnfluent
	perfect	cōnflūxī	cōnflūxistī	cōnflūxit	cōnflūximus	cōnflūxistis	cōnflūxērunt, cōnflūxēre
	pluperfect	cōnflūxeram	cōnflūxerās	cōnflūxerat	cōnflūxerāmus	cōnflūxerātis	cōnflūxerant
	future perfect	cōnflūxerō	cōnflūxeris	cōnflūxerit	cōnflūxerimus	cōnflūxeritis	cōnflūxerint
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cōnfluam	cōnfluās	cōnfluat	cōnfluāmus	cōnfluātis	cōnfluant
	imperfect	cōnfluerem	cōnfluerēs	cōnflueret	cōnfluerēmus	cōnfluerētis	cōnfluerent
	perfect	cōnflūxerim	cōnflūxerīs	cōnflūxerit	cōnflūxerīmus	cōnflūxerītis	cōnflūxerint
	pluperfect	cōnflūxissem	cōnflūxissēs	cōnflūxisset	cōnflūxissēmus	cōnflūxissētis	cōnflūxissent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	cōnflue	—	—	cōnfluite	—
	future	—	cōnfluitō	cōnfluitō	—	cōnfluitōte	cōnfluuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		cōnfluere	cōnflūxisse	—	—	—	—
participles		cōnfluēns	—	—	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		cōnfluendī	cōnfluendō	cōnfluendum	cōnfluendō	—	—

   Conjugation of cōnfluō (third conjugation, no supine stem, active-only)

Derived terms

• cōnfluēns
• cōnfluentia
• cōnflūgēs
• cōnfluus
• cōnfluvium

Related terms

• affluō
• circumfluō
• dēfluō
• diffluō
• effluō
• fluō
• īnfluō
• interfluō
• perfluō
• praefluō
• praeterfluō
• prōfluō
• refluō
• subterfluō
• superfluō
• trānsfluō

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: confluir
• → French: confluer
• → Galician: confluír
• → Italian: confluire
• → Portuguese: confluir
• → Spanish: confluir

References

• “confluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “confluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• confluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to collect together at one spot: in unum locum convenire, confluere
    

Portuguese

Verb

confluo

1. first-person singular present indicative of confluir