diffluo

Latin

Etymology

From dis- +‎ fluō (“flow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdɪf.fɫu.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪if.flu.o]

Verb

diffluō (present infinitive diffluere, perfect active difflūxī, supine difflūxum); third conjugation, no passive

1. (intransitive, of liquids) to flow or run or shed away or in different directions
2. (intransitive) to dissolve, melt away, disappear
3. (intransitive, figuratively) to be dissolved in, abandoned to, waste away

Conjugation

   Conjugation of diffluō (third conjugation, no passive)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	diffluō		diffluis		diffluit		diffluimus		diffluitis		diffluunt
	imperfect	diffluēbam		diffluēbās		diffluēbat		diffluēbāmus		diffluēbātis		diffluēbant
	future	diffluam		diffluēs		diffluet		diffluēmus		diffluētis		diffluent
	perfect	difflūxī		difflūxistī		difflūxit		difflūximus		difflūxistis		difflūxērunt, difflūxēre
	pluperfect	difflūxeram		difflūxerās		difflūxerat		difflūxerāmus		difflūxerātis		difflūxerant
	future perfect	difflūxerō		difflūxeris		difflūxerit		difflūxerimus		difflūxeritis		difflūxerint
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	diffluam		diffluās		diffluat		diffluāmus		diffluātis		diffluant
	imperfect	diffluerem		diffluerēs		difflueret		diffluerēmus		diffluerētis		diffluerent
	perfect	difflūxerim		difflūxerīs		difflūxerit		difflūxerīmus		difflūxerītis		difflūxerint
	pluperfect	difflūxissem		difflūxissēs		difflūxisset		difflūxissēmus		difflūxissētis		difflūxissent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		difflue		—		—		diffluite		—
	future	—		diffluitō		diffluitō		—		diffluitōte		diffluuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		diffluere			—			diffluēns			—
future		difflūxūrum esse			—			difflūxūrus			—
perfect		difflūxisse			—			—			—
perfect potential		difflūxūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		diffluendī		diffluendō		diffluendum		diffluendō		difflūxum		difflūxū

Derived terms

• diffluus
• diffluxiō

Related terms

• affluō
• circumfluō
• cōnfluō
• dēfluō
• effluō
• fluō
• īnfluō
• interfluō
• perfluō
• praefluō
• praeterfluō
• prōfluō
• refluō
• subterfluō
• superfluō
• trānsfluō

Descendants

• Catalan: difluir
• French: diffluer
• Portuguese: difluir
• Spanish: difluir

References

• “diffluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “diffluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “diffluo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen extra ripas diffluit
    
  • to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate: otio diffluere
    
  • to wanton in the pleasures of sense: deliciis diffluere
    
  • to be abandoned to a life of excess: luxuria diffluere (Off. 1. 30. 106)
    
  • to be abandoned to a life of excess: omnium rerum copia diffluere