Etymology

fluent

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Today it means: That flows; flowing, liquid. Full definition →

Latin fluens
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  1. Latin · derived fromfluens“flowing”
  2. English todayfluent

From Latin fluens (“flowing”), present active participle of fluō (“to flow”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.