diffluo

Latin

Etymology

From dis- +‎ fluō (“flow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdif.flu.oː/, [ˈd̪ɪfːɫ̪uoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdif.flu.o/, [ˈd̪ifːluo]

Verb

diffluō (present infinitive diffluere, perfect active difflūxī, supine difflūxum); third conjugation, no passive

1. (intransitive, of liquids) to flow or run or shed away or in different directions
2. (intransitive) to dissolve, melt away, disappear
3. (intransitive, figuratively) to be dissolved in, abandoned to, waste away

Conjugation

Conjugation of diffluō (third conjugation, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	diffluō	diffluis	diffluit	diffluimus	diffluitis	diffluunt
	imperfect	diffluēbam	diffluēbās	diffluēbat	diffluēbāmus	diffluēbātis	diffluēbant
	future	diffluam	diffluēs	diffluet	diffluēmus	diffluētis	diffluent
	perfect	difflūxī	difflūxistī	difflūxit	difflūximus	difflūxistis	difflūxērunt, difflūxēre
	pluperfect	difflūxeram	difflūxerās	difflūxerat	difflūxerāmus	difflūxerātis	difflūxerant
	future perfect	difflūxerō	difflūxeris	difflūxerit	difflūxerimus	difflūxeritis	difflūxerint
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	diffluam	diffluās	diffluat	diffluāmus	diffluātis	diffluant
	imperfect	diffluerem	diffluerēs	difflueret	diffluerēmus	diffluerētis	diffluerent
	perfect	difflūxerim	difflūxerīs	difflūxerit	difflūxerīmus	difflūxerītis	difflūxerint
	pluperfect	difflūxissem	difflūxissēs	difflūxisset	difflūxissēmus	difflūxissētis	difflūxissent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	difflue	—	—	diffluite	—
	future	—	diffluitō	diffluitō	—	diffluitōte	diffluuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		diffluere	difflūxisse	difflūxūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		diffluēns	—	difflūxūrus	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		diffluendī	diffluendō	diffluendum	diffluendō	difflūxum	difflūxū

Derived terms

• diffluus
• diffluxiō

Related terms

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

Descendants

• Catalan: difluir
• French: diffluer
• Portuguese: difluir
• Spanish: difluir

References

• “diffluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “diffluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• diffluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen extra ripas diffluit
    
  • to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate: otio diffluere
    
  • to wanton in the pleasures of sense: deliciis diffluere
    
  • to be abandoned to a life of excess: luxuria diffluere (Off. 1. 30. 106)
    
  • to be abandoned to a life of excess: omnium rerum copia diffluere