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fluent
English
Etymology
Latin fluens (“flowing”), present active participle of flu? (“I flow”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?flu??nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?flu?nt/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /?flju??nt/
- Rhymes: -??nt
Adjective
fluent (comparative more fluent, superlative most fluent)
- That flows; flowing, liquid.
- (linguistics) Able to use a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently – in a flowing way.
Usage notes
In casual use, “fluency” refers to language proficiency broadly, while in narrow use it refers to using a language flowingly, rather than haltingly.
Synonyms
- (that flows): fluent; see also Thesaurus:flowing or Thesaurus:runny
Related terms
- fluency
- fluently
Translations
Noun
fluent (plural fluents)
- (mathematics, obsolete) A continuous variable, especially one with respect to time in Newton's Method of Fluxions.
References
Anagrams
- netful, unfelt
Latin
Verb
fluent
- third-person plural future active indicative of flu?
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fluens.
Adjective
fluent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fluent or fluente)
- (of a liquid) flowing; that flows
Related terms
- fluer
Romanian
Etymology
From French fluent
Adjective
fluent m or n (feminine singular fluent?, masculine plural fluen?i, feminine and neuter plural fluente)
- fluent
Declension
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emphatic
English
Alternative forms
- emphatick (obsolete)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????????? (emphatikós, “emphatic”), from ??????? (emphaín?, “I show, present”), from ?? (en, “in”) + ????? (phaín?, “I shine, show”); related to ??????? (émphasis) and English emphasis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?fæt?k/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?m?fæt?k/
- Rhymes: -æt?k
Adjective
emphatic (comparative more emphatic, superlative most emphatic)
- Characterized by emphasis; forceful.
- Stated with conviction.
- He gave me an emphatic no when I asked him out.
- (grammar) Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to.
- (phonology) Belonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Semitic languages that are distinguished from both voiced and voiceless consonants by a certain phonetic feature or features.
- pharyngealized consonants in Arabic, Hebrew, and other Northwest Semitic languages
- ejectives in Ge'ez, Amharic, and other Ethiopic Semitic languages
Derived terms
- emphatically
Related terms
- emphasis
- emphasise, emphasize
Translations
Noun
emphatic (plural emphatics)
- (phonology) An emphatic consonant.
- (linguistics) A word or phrase adding emphasis, such as "a lot" or "really".
See also
- phatic
Anagrams
- empathic
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