Where does “afluent” come from?
afluent (Romanian) comes from French affluent, from Latin affluentem, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
afluent (Romanian): tributary
Definitions
- tributary
Ancestry of “afluent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | affluent | tributary; tributary; affluent; third-person... |
| 2 | Latin | affluentem | accusative masculine singular of affluēns;... |
| 3 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 4 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 5 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 6 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |