fluvius

• flouius, fluius

From the root of fluō (“flow”), ultimately from *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow”), whence also flūmen.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈflu.u̯i.us/, [ˈfɫ̪uː̯iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈflu.vi.us/, [ˈfluːvius]
• Note: the first two syllables are once found treated as one heavy, IPA^(key): /flui̯.i̯-/, /fluː.i̯-/.[1]

fluvius m (genitive fluviī or fluvī); second declension

1. a stream, smaller river

   Synonym: flūmen

2. the stream of a river, a current, torrent
   1. (transferred sense) (said of blood, sweat etc.)

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “fluuius” on page 787 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

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