fluent

fluent
fluent 1580s, "flowing freely" (of water, also of speech), from L. fluentem (nom. fluens) "lax, relaxed," figuratively "flowing, fluent," prp. of fluere "to flow, stream, run, melt," from PIE *bhleugw-, extended form of *bhleu- "to swell, well up, overflow" (Cf. L. flumen "river;" Gk. phluein "to boil over, bubble up," phlein "to abound"), an extension of root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell;" see BOLE (Cf. bole). Used interchangeably with FLUID (Cf. fluid) in Elizabethan times. Related: Fluently.

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