fluentisonus

Latin

FWOTD – 1 December 2016

Etymology

From fluentum (“current, flow”) +‎ -sonus (“sounding”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɫu.ɛnˈtɪ.sɔ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [flu.enˈtiː.s̬o.nus]

Adjective

fluentisonus (feminine fluentisona, neuter fluentisonum); first/second-declension adjective

1. resounding with the sound of waves; undisonant
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 64.52:

     namque fluentisonō prōspectāns lītore Dīae / Thēsea cēdentem celerī cum classe tuētur / indomitōs in corde gerēns Ariadna furōrēs

     For there, looking forth from the wave-sounding shore of Dia, Ariadna sees Theseus, as he sails away with swift fleet, Ariadna bearing wild madness in her heart.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fluentisonus	fluentisona	fluentisonum		fluentisonī	fluentisonae	fluentisona
genitive	fluentisonī	fluentisonae	fluentisonī		fluentisonōrum	fluentisonārum	fluentisonōrum
dative	fluentisonō	fluentisonae	fluentisonō		fluentisonīs
accusative	fluentisonum	fluentisonam	fluentisonum		fluentisonōs	fluentisonās	fluentisona
ablative	fluentisonō	fluentisonā	fluentisonō		fluentisonīs
vocative	fluentisone	fluentisona	fluentisonum		fluentisonī	fluentisonae	fluentisona

Synonyms

• undisonus

References

• “fluentisonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fluentisonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fluentisonus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• fluentisonus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016