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Fluent Latin Root 12245.Fluent 英 Fluːənt]美 Fluənt 释义

正面 12245.fluent
英 ['fluːənt]美 ['fluənt]

背面
释义:
adj. 流畅的,流利的;液态的;畅流的
例句:
1. He is a fluent speaker of Hebrew.他说一口流利的希伯来语。

1. recognize => reconnaissance.2. 区分:reconnaissance <====> renaissance.
fluent 液态的,流畅的来自拉丁语fluere, 流动,来自PIE*bhel,膨胀,涌出,词源同boil. 在词源上该词与float等有所差别和侧重,但是词义上已经基本重合。
fluentfluent: see fluxfluent (adj.)1580s, "flowing freely" (of water), also, of speakers, "able and nimble in the use of words," from Latin fluentem (nominative fluens) "lax, relaxed," figuratively "flowing, fluent," present participle of fluere "to flow, stream, run, melt," from extended form of PIE root *bhleu- "to swell, well up, overflow" (cognates: Latin flumen "river;" Greek phluein "to boil over, bubble up," phlein "to abound"), an extension of root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell;" see bole. Used interchangeably with fluid (adj.) in 17c. in the sense "changeable, not rigid." Related: Fluently."

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