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 Latin) IPA^(key): /doːˈflu.u̯i.um/, [d̪oːˈfɫ̪uː̯iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate 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.