'Confluence' is Latin for 'flowing together' — where rivers or ideas converge into one stream.
The junction of two or more rivers. A coming together of people, things, or factors; a gathering or convergence.
From Late Latin 'confluentia' (a flowing together, a meeting of streams), derived from Latin 'confluēns,' the present participle of 'confluere' (to flow together), itself composed of 'con-' (together, with, jointly) + 'fluere' (to flow, to stream). 'Fluere' descends from PIE *bhleu- (to swell, to overflow, to well up), the same root that produced 'fluid,' 'fluent,' 'flux,' 'influence,' and 'effluent.' The concrete geographical sense — the point where two rivers
Many of the world's great cities were founded at confluences: Pittsburgh (Allegheny and Monongahela), Khartoum (Blue and White Nile), Lyon (Rhône and Saône), Koblenz (Rhine and Moselle). The German city Koblenz takes its name directly from Latin 'confluentia' — it was a Roman military settlement at the meeting of two rivers, and the name has survived twenty centuries of linguistic change with its meaning perfectly intact.
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