fluxus

See also: Fluxus

Hungarian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈfluksuʃ]
  • Hyphenation: flu‧xus
  • Rhymes: -uʃ

Noun

fluxus (plural fluxusok)

  1. (electricity) flux

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Possessive forms of fluxus
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. fluxusom fluxusaim
2nd person sing. fluxusod fluxusaid
3rd person sing. fluxusa fluxusai
1st person plural fluxusunk fluxusaink
2nd person plural fluxusotok fluxusaitok
3rd person plural fluxusuk fluxusaik

Latin

Pronunciation

Note: while the root vowel is generally thought to have been long in Classical Latin, Romance descendants point rather to its being short.[1] Compare lū̆xus.

Etymology 1

From fluō (“flow”) +‎ -tus (action noun-forming suffix). The unexpected /g~k/ in this perfect stem may be a result of proportional analogy with struō :: strūxī and vīvō :: vīxī. Compare flūctus. [2]

Noun

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  1. flow
  2. flux
Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants

Note: unlike the adjective, the noun has left no inherited descendants.[3]

  • → Catalan: flux
  • → English: flux, → Fluxus
  • → French: flux
  • → Friulian: flus
  • → Galician: fluxo
  • → Italian: flusso
  • → Portuguese: fluxo
  • → Old Spanish: fluxo
    • Spanish: flujo
    • → Sicilian: flusciu, frusciu
  • → Venetian: fluso

Adjective

flū̆xus (feminine flū̆xa, neuter flū̆xum, comparative flū̆xior); first/second-declension adjective

  1. flowing, fluid
  2. loose
  3. transient, transitory, fleeting
Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants

References
  1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “fluxus (adj.)”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 647
  2. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “fluō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 228
  3. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “fluxus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 646

Further reading
  • “fluxus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fluxus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fluxus 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)
  • fluxus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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