flumen

Borrowed from Latin flumen (“river”). Doublet of flume.

flumen (plural flumina)

1. (astronomy, geology) In planetary geology, any of the river-like features on Saturn's moon Titan.

From fluō (“I flow”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfluː.men/, [ˈfɫuː.mɛn]

flūmen n (genitive flūminis); third declension

1. river

Third declension neuter.

• fluō
• fluvius

• flumen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• flumen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• flumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to draw off water from a river: aquam ex flumine derivare
    
  • the rivers flows with a rapid current: flumen citatum fertur
    
  • a river swollen by the rain: flumen imbribus auctum
    
  • the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen super ripas effunditur
    
  • the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen extra ripas diffluit
    
  • the river floods the fields: flumen agros inundat
    
  • to wade across, to ford a river: flumen vado transire
    
  • with the stream; downstream: flumine secundo
    
  • against the stream; upstream: flumine adverso
    
  • flow of oratory: flumen orationis (De Or. 2. 15. 62)
    
  • senseless rant: inanium verborum flumen
    
  • to build a bridge over a river: pontem facere in flumine
    
  • to build a bridge over a river: flumen ponte iungere
    
  • there is a bridge over the river: pons est in flumine