confluentia
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cōnfluēns (present participle of cōnfluō (“to flow or run together”)) + -ia (nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kon.fluˈen.ti.a/, [kõːfɫ̪uˈɛn̪t̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.fluˈen.t͡si.a/, [koɱfluˈɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
Noun
[edit]cōnfluentia f (genitive cōnfluentiae); first declension (Late Latin)
- a flowing together, conflux; a confluence
Inflection
[edit]First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cōnfluentia | cōnfluentiae |
| Genitive | cōnfluentiae | cōnfluentiārum |
| Dative | cōnfluentiae | cōnfluentiīs |
| Accusative | cōnfluentiam | cōnfluentiās |
| Ablative | cōnfluentiā | cōnfluentiīs |
| Vocative | cōnfluentia | cōnfluentiae |
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: confluència
- → Middle English: confluens, confluence
- English: confluence
- Italian: confluenza
- Portuguese: confluência
- Spanish: confluencia
References
[edit]- “confluentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press