The corpus record — Latin

fluentum

fluentum · n

a flow

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Where it lives

Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Mosella 2 · 6.15/10k
De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 2 · 1.58/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 4 · 0.91/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

flŭentum — Lewis & Short

flŭentum, i, n.fluo,

I a flow, flood; in concr., running water, a stream, river.

I Lit. (poet. and in post-class. prose; usually in plur.): fluenta Lubrica, Lucr. 5, 949: Xanthi, Verg. A. 4, 143: rauca (Cocyti), id. ib. 6, 327: Tiberina, id. ib. 12, 35: cum inter fluenta tibiis fidibusque concineret, i. e. by the Euripus, Flor. 2, 8, 9: Jordanis, Vulg. Num. 13, 30.—In sing., App. de Deo Socr. p. 52; Aus. Mos. 10, 59; Avien. Perieg. 32; Prud. stef. 12, 32.—Of milk: tonans (Juppiter) suxit fluenta mammarum, Arn. 4, 141.—

II Transf., a stream of fire (cf. fluctus, II. A. 2.): flammarum, App. de Mundo, p. 73 (shortly before, flumina); a stream or current of air, Lucr. 5, 278; al. fluenteis for fluentis.

In the wild

fluentum Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.731
fluenta Vergil, Aeneid 4.143
fluenta Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.57
fluentum Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.12
fluenta Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 125.7
fluenta Ausonius, Ordo Urbium Nobilium 20.12

6 of 35 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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