Lemma 1flumen

nounneuter

river, stream; any flowing fluid; flood; onrush; [adverso ~ => against

Morphology3 analyses

nominative singularflumen · regular

vocative singularflumen · regular

accusative singularflumen · regular

Lewis & Short

key · flumenFull entry

flūmen, ĭnis, n. [id.]

I.a flowing of water; and concr., a flood, stream, flowing or running water (syn.: fluvius, amnis, rivus).

II.In gen. (mostly poet.): Romane, aquam Albanam cave lacu contineri, cave in mare manare suo flumine sinas, an old prophetic formula ap.; et Tiberis flumen vomit in mare salsum, Enn. ap. (Ann. v. 453 ed. Vahl.); quin tu ante vivo perfunderis flumine? Auct. ap. (for which: Müll.). — In plur.

III.In partic., a river.

A.Lit. (the predominant signif. of the word both in prose and poetry): quod per amoenam urbem leni fluit agmine flumen, Enn. ap. (Ann. v. 177 ed. Vahl.); Drak. N. cr.: (cf. secundus, 2. a.)

2.Transf., of other things which flow in streams or like streams, a stream, flood (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): rigido concussae flumine nubes Exonerabantur, a torrent of rain.

B.Trop., of expression, a flow, fluency, stream — And fig.