The story
- Latin · derived fromaffluentia
- Old French · derived fromaffluence
- English todayaffluence
From Old French affluence, from Latin affluentia. Only relation to antonym indigence is common Latinate suffix; affluence only acquired sense of wealth in 16th century English and French, while indigentia meant “poverty” or “lack” in Latin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.