fluctus

English

Noun

fluctus (plural fluctus or flucti)

  1. (astronomy, geology) An area covered by outflow from a volcano.

Latin

Etymology

From fluō (“flow”) +‎ -tus (action noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfluk.tus/, [ˈfɫʊk.tʊs]

Noun

fluctus m (genitive fluctūs); fourth declension

  1. a wave, billow

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fluctus fluctūs
Genitive fluctūs fluctuum
Dative fluctuī fluctibus
Accusative fluctum fluctūs
Ablative fluctū fluctibus
Vocative fluctus fluctūs

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  • fluctus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fluctus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fluctus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • fluctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • tossed hither and thither by the waves: fluctibus iactari
    • to be engulfed: fluctibus (undis) obrui,submergi
    • to enter the whirlpool of political strife: se civilibus fluctibus committere
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