confluire

See also: confluiré

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnfluere, with change of conjugation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kon.fluˈi.re/[1][2]
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: con‧flu‧ì‧re

Verb

confluìre (first-person singular present confluìsco, first-person singular past historic confluìi, past participle confluìto, auxiliary èssere or (rare) avére) (intransitive) [auxiliary essere or (rarely) avere]

  1. to flow together (of two rivers)
  2. to flow [+ in (another river) = into] (of a river)
  3. (by extension) to converge, to meet (of roads, pipelines, etc.)
  4. (figurative) to converge

Conjugation

References

  1. confluire in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  2. influire in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

  • confluire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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