English → Latin
“stream” in Latin
flūmena river; flowing water; a stream, flood; flow, fluency, fluiditycursusthe act of running; race; Course, way, passage, journey, voyage, march; Course, progress, direction, development, succesamnistorrent (any broad, deep flowing, rapid water); stream; river; ocean; liquid; current; the flow of well-written texttorreōto scorch, burn, parch; to roast, bake; to nip, pinchfluōto flow, stream, pour; to proceed, spring, go forth; to vanish, disappear, wiltferōto bear; to carry; to support, hold up; to suffer, tolerate, endure, beareffundōto pour out, shed, spread abroad, drain off; to pour, drive, cast or send out, shower, discharge; to give oneself up to,
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
stream s.
PROP., flumen (the proper word): cursus (the flowing of a river): amnis (large stream or river): torrens (mountain-torrent). To flow with a rapid stream, rapido cursu ferri: with the stream, secundo flumine (not fluvio); secunda aqua; secundum naturam fluminis: to swim or flow with the stream, secundo flumine or secunda aqua deferri: proverbially, numquam dirigere brachia contra torrentem (Juvenal): against the stream, adverso flumine; contra aquam: to stream against the stream, contra aquam remigrare (Sen., Ep., 122, extr.); adversum flumen subire (Curt., both PROP.: ☞ not fluminibus se obvium ferre; the true reading in Caes., Rep., 1, 4, 7, is fulminibus).
Figuratively, Stream of time, cursus temporis: (of a speech, etc.) flumen (e.g., velut flumen quoddam eloquentiae); vis (great abundance; general term).
stream v.
fluere (flow, general term): ferri (to be borne rapidly; of rivers; ☞ Hirt., B.G., 8, 40, etc., and of persons in alarm, etc.): se effundere or effundi (to pour out; PROP., of streams discharging themselves into a sea or lake; then also of men, etc.). To stream out of a gate, porta se effundere or effundi.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for stream?
- The usual Latin words for “stream” are flūmen, cursus, amnis; also torreō, fluō, ferō. 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.