profluent

English

Etymology

From Latin profluens, from profluere (“to flow forth”), from pro- + fluere (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒfluənt/, /ˈpɹɒfləwənt/

Adjective

profluent (comparative more profluent, superlative most profluent)

  1. Flowing smoothly as if in a stream.
    • 1881, James Thomson (B. V.), A Voice from the Nile:
      My profluent waters perish not from life,
      Absorbed into the ever-living sea
      Whose life is in their full replenishment.

Latin

Verb

prōfluent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of prōfluō
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