Fluonia

Latin

Alternative forms

Fluviōnia, Fluvōnia

Etymology

fluō (“I flow”) +‎ -ōnia

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /fluˈoː.ni.a/, [fɫ̪uˈoːniä]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fluˈo.ni.a/, [fluˈɔːniä]

Proper noun

Fluōnia f sg (genitive Fluōniae); first declension

an epithet of Juno
- 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 92:
  Fluoniam Iunonem mulieres colebant, quod eam sanguinis fluorem in conceptu retinere putabant.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

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References

“Flŭōnĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Fluōnia” on page 717/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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