fluent的词源

英文词源

fluent: fluent: see flux
fluent (adj.): 1580s, "flowing freely" (of water), also, of speakers, "able and nimble in the use of words," from Latin fluentem (nominative fluens) "lax, relaxed," figuratively "flowing, fluent," present participle of fluere "to flow, stream, run, melt," from extended form of PIE root *bhleu- "to swell, well up, overflow" (cognates: Latin flumen "river;" Greek phluein "to boil over, bubble up," phlein "to abound"), an extension of root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell;" see bole. Used interchangeably with fluid (adj.) in 17c. in the sense "changeable, not rigid." Related: Fluently.

来自拉丁语fluere, 流动，来自PIE*bhel，膨胀，涌出，词源同boil. 在词源上该词与float等有所差别和侧重，但是词义上已经基本重合。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：fluent 词源，fluent 含义。

词根词缀： -flu-流 + -ent形容词词尾