From the root offluō(“flow”), ultimately from*bʰleh₁-(“to swell, blow”), whence alsoflūmen.
fluvius m (genitivefluviīorfluvī);second declension
- astream, smallerriver
- Synonyms:flūmen,amnis,rīvus
- thestream of a river, acurrent,torrent
- (transferred sense)(said of blood, sweat etc.)
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
- “fluvius”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fluvius”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "fluvius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “fluvius”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.