English
fluxure
Fluxure comes from Latin flūxūrus ‘a flowing’, and goes back to fluō ‘to flow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō1‘to flow’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflūxūrus2as flūxūra‘a flowing’
- Englishearliest quotation 1599fluxure2
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin fluxurus
- 2 Wiktionary, English fluxure
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1599, Inductio: “Humor […] in it ſelfe holds theſe two properties,…”.
Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluōWiktionary, Latin fluxurus‘to flow’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflūxūrusWiktionary, English fluxureas flūxūra‘a flowing’
- Englishearliest quotation 1599fluxureWiktionary, English fluxure. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1599, Inductio: “Humor […] in it ſelfe holds theſe two properties,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to swell, blow’
blow, blast, inflation, flavor, bliss, bladder, feeble, inflate, blithely, flatulence, blather, conflate, blare, bleat, 44 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti
through Latin fluō ‘to flow’
influence, fluid, fluent, influx, confluence, fluctuate, fluency, fluctuation, affluence, fluorine, flume, fluvial, fluorite, fluor, 26 more
Today it means
noun The quality of being fluid; fluidity.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “fluxure”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin fluxurus. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Latin fluō / fluxure