confluentia

Latin

Etymology

From cōnfluēns (present participle of cōnfluō (“to flow or run together”)) +‎ -ia (nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõː.fɫuˈɛn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koɱ.fluˈɛn.t͡si.a]

Noun

cōnfluentia f (genitive cōnfluentiae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. a flowing together, conflux; a confluence

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Inflection

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnfluentia	cōnfluentiae
genitive	cōnfluentiae	cōnfluentiārum
dative	cōnfluentiae	cōnfluentiīs
accusative	cōnfluentiam	cōnfluentiās
ablative	cōnfluentiā	cōnfluentiīs
vocative	cōnfluentia	cōnfluentiae

Descendants

• Catalan: confluència
• → Middle English: confluens, confluence
  • English: confluence
• Italian: confluenza
• Portuguese: confluência
• Spanish: confluencia

References

• “confluentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press