fluctus

fluctus (plural fluctus or flucti)

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

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

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

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”.)

Fourth-declension noun.

• flūxus

• Italian: fiotto, → flutto

• “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, 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