'Confluent' is Latin for 'flowing together' — streams merging into a single current.
Flowing together; merging; (in medicine) describing lesions or rashes that merge to form larger areas.
From Latin 'confluens,' present participle of 'confluere' (to flow together), composed of 'con-' (together, with) and 'fluere' (to flow). The PIE root is *bʰlew- meaning 'to swell, to overflow, to flow,' the same root that generates Latin 'fluctus' (a wave), 'flumen' (river), 'fluor' (flow), and English 'flow,' 'flood,' and possibly 'fleet' (of ships, things that float). The participial form 'confluens' was used as a noun in Latin to mean a confluence
Many major cities sit at confluences — points where rivers flow together. Pittsburgh sits at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, which form the Ohio. Koblenz in Germany takes its name directly from the Latin 'Confluentes,' because it sits where the Moselle flows into the Rhine. Lyon in France sits at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône. The geography
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