FromOld Frenchaffluence, fromLatinaffluentia.
Only relation to antonymindigence is common Latinate suffix;affluence only acquired sense of wealth in 16th century English and French, whileindigent meant “poor” in Latin.
affluence (countable anduncountable,pluralaffluences)
- (obsolete) An abundant flow or supply.
- An abundance ofwealth.
Hisaffluence was surpassed by no man.
- A moderate level of wealth.
They had achievedaffluence, but aspired to true wealth.
- Aninflux.
abundance of wealth
- Arabic:ثَرْوَة f(ṯarwa)
- Bulgarian:богатство (bg) n(bogatstvo),охолство (bg) n(oholstvo)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:富裕 (zh)(fùyù),富足 (zh)(fùzú)
- Czech:bohatství (cs) n
- Dutch:rijkdom (nl) ?
- Finnish:rikkaus (fi)
- French:opulence (fr) f
- German:Überfluss (de) m,Reichtum (de) m
- Greek:ευμάρεια (el) f(evmáreia)
- Hindi:समृद्धि (hi) f(samŕddhi),संपन्नता (hi) f(sampannatā)
- Italian:ricchezza (it) f,opulenza (it) f,abbondanza (it) f
- Japanese:裕福 (ja)(yūfuku)
- Maori:houkuratanga
- Polish:dostatek (pl) m,bogactwo (pl) n
- Portuguese:afluência (pt) f
- Russian:изоби́лие (ru) n(izobílije),бога́тство (ru) n(bogátstvo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:и̏мӯћно̄ст f
- Roman:ȉmūćnōst f
- Slovak:bohatstvo n
- Spanish:abundancia (es) f,afluencia (es) f,prosperidad (es) f
- Turkish:varlıklılık (tr),varsıllık (tr),zenginlik (tr)
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FromLatinaffluentia.
affluence f (pluralaffluences)
- crowds
- abundance
