fluctus
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]fluctus (plural fluctus or flucti)
Latin
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Etymology
[edit]From fluō (“flow”) + -tus (action noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfluːk.tus/, [ˈfɫ̪uːkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfluk.tus/, [ˈflukt̪us]
Noun
[edit]flūctus m (genitive flūctūs); fourth declension
- a wave, billow
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.65–66:
- “Aeole, namque tibī dīvom pater atque hominum rēx
et mulcēre dedit flūctūs et tollere ventō.”- “Oh Aeolus, for indeed to you the Father of the Gods and King of Men granted [the power] both to calm the waves and to stir [them] up with wind.”
(Juno is speaking to Aeolus (son of Hippotes) about the power granted him by Jupiter. Note: Here, “divom” is a syncopated form of divorum, “of the gods”.)
- “Oh Aeolus, for indeed to you the Father of the Gods and King of Men granted [the power] both to calm the waves and to stir [them] up with wind.”
- “Aeole, namque tibī dīvom pater atque hominum rēx
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | flūctus | flūctūs |
Genitive | flūctūs | flūctuum |
Dative | flūctuī | flūctibus |
Accusative | flūctum | flūctūs |
Ablative | flūctū | flūctibus |
Vocative | flūctus | flūctūs |
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fluctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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
- tossed hither and thither by the waves: fluctibus iactari
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