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Portuguese

flume

/ˈflũ.mi/ · noun

Meaning

  1. river

Etymology / origin

From Old Galician-Portuguese flume, frume (“river”), from Latin flūmen (“river”), from fluere (“to flow”). Cognate with English flume, Italian fiume and Occitan flume.

  1. flume(oc)→
  2. fiume(Italian)→
  3. flume(English)→
  4. flūmen(la)→
  5. flume(Old Galician-Portuguese)→
  6. flume (Portuguese)
  7. Relations: inh, der, cog, cog, cog

Related words

flume(Old Galician-Portuguese)flūmen(la)flume(English)fiume(Italian)flume(oc)

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