fluctus

English

Noun

fluctus (plural fluctus or flucti)

1. (astronomy, geology) An area covered by outflow from a volcano.

Latin

Fluctus marinus.

Etymology

From fluō (“flow”) +‎ -tus (action noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfluːk.tus/, [ˈfɫ̪uːkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfluk.tus/, [ˈflukt̪us]

Noun

flūctus m (genitive flūctūs); fourth declension

1. a wave, billow
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.65–66:

     “Aeole, namque tibī dīvom pater atque hominum rēx
     et mulcēre dedit flūctūs et tollere ventō.”

     “Oh Aeolus, for indeed to you the Father of the Gods and King of Men granted [the power] both to calm the waves and to stir [them] up with wind.”
     (Juno is speaking to Aeolus (son of Hippotes) about the power granted him by Jupiter. Note: Here, “divom” is a syncopated form of divorum, “of the gods”.)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	flūctus	flūctūs
genitive	flūctūs	flūctuum
dative	flūctuī	flūctibus
accusative	flūctum	flūctūs
ablative	flūctū	flūctibus
vocative	flūctus	flūctūs

Derived terms

• flūcticulus
• flūctifragus
• flūctiger
• flūctisonus
• flūctivagus
• flūctuō
• flūctuōsus

 

Related terms

• flūxus

Descendants

• Italian: fiotto, → flutto

References

• “fluctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fluctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fluctus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fluctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • tossed hither and thither by the waves: fluctibus iactari
    
  • to be engulfed: fluctibus (undis) obrui,submergi
    
  • to enter the whirlpool of political strife: se civilibus fluctibus committere