The corpus record — Latin

refluo

refluo · v. n

to flow

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Where it lives

Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Octavius 2 · 1.72/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Punica 5 · 0.66/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕ-flŭo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-flŭo, ĕre, v. n.,

I to flow or run back; to flow off, overflow (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): Maeandros ambiguo lapsu refluitque fluitque, Ov. M. 8, 163: refluit amnis, Verg. A. 8, 240; cf. unda, id. ib. 8, 87; id. G. 4, 262: Nilus campis, id. A. 9, 32. — Of the tide, Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 213.

In the wild

refluens Vergil, Aeneid 8.87
refluentis Prudentius, Cathemerina 12.178
refluo Ausonius, Ordo Urbium Nobilium 20.19
refluoque Silius Italicus, Punica 15.622
refluunt Minucius Felix, Octavius 5.8
reflui Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.482

6 of 27 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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