What is the Latin word for flowing?

The usual Latin words for “flowing” are fluō, mānō, perennis; also iugum, prōfluō, volūbilis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“flowing” in Latin

fluōto flow, stream, pour; to proceed, spring, go forth; to vanish, disappear, wilt mānōto give out, shed, pour forth; to flow, run, trickle, drop, distil, run; to leak; to flow, diffuse or extend oneself, sp perennisperennial; continual, everlasting, perpetual iuguma yoke (for oxen or cattle) or collar (for a horse); a yoke, pair, team of draft oxen; a pair of horses; a chariot; a ju prōfluōto flow or run forth or along; discharge; to be relaxed; to flow or spring forth, issue, proceed volūbilisturning, spinning, whirling, rolling, revolving (that turns itself around); rapid, fluent, voluble; changeable, mutable

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

flowing

(A) (A) PROPR., fluens: manans [SYN. in To FLOW]: perennis: jugis (always flowing; of water, of a well, brook, etc.). Flowing water, flumen vivum. (B) FIG., Of speech, fluens [Vid: observation at the end of this article]: profluens: volubilis (rolling fast, voluble; of a speaker, and the speech, especially when the speech consists entirely of short sentences; Vid: Cic., Brut., 28, 108; Or., 56, 187, where oratio stabilis is opposed to it). The easy and flowing speech of the orator, expedita et perfacile currens oratio (Cic., Brut., 63, 227); tractus orationis lenis et aequabilis (Cic., De Or., 2, 13, 54); also, verborum expedita ac profluens quodammodo celeritas (Cic., Brut., 61, 220): a flowing style of writing, genus orationis profluens; *genus dicendi sponte sua fusum; *oratio leniter profluens: flowing verses. versus fluentes; versus sponte sua ad numeros aptos venientes (Ov., Trist., 4, 10, 25): to be written in flowing elegiac verses, scriptum elegis esse fluentibus (Plin., Ep., 5, 17, 2); in a flowing manner, facile; commode: ☞ dissoluta aut fluens oratio, dissipata et fluens oratio, are expressions of blame, denoting a want of nerve, vigor, conciseness, etc.

Flowing; of garments, fluens (e.g., veste fluente; tunicis fluentibus): fluitans (vestis, Tac.; amictus, Catullus).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for flowing?: The usual Latin words for “flowing” are fluō, mānō, perennis; also iugum, prōfluō, volūbilis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.