fluid (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. fluĭdus2. fluxus (rare)3. lĭquĭdus • fluid (adj.): 1. fluĭdus: what is so contrary as earthy to f., quid tam contrarium quam terrenum fluido? Col.: f. bodies, fluido quae corpore constant, Lucr. 2. fluxus (rare): f. juices, f. succi, Plin. 9, 38, 62. 3. lĭquĭdus: v. liquid.
fluid (subs.) Copy link Outline I. In strict scientific sense; expr. by fluĭdusII. In general sense1. hūmor (any kind of moisture)2. lĭquor3. lătex, ĭcis, m. (poet.) • fluid (subs.): I. In strict scientific sense; expr. by fluĭdus: water and air are f.s, *fluida sunt aqua et aer; fluido corpore constant, praedita sunt: v. supr. (I.). II. In general sense: 1. hūmor (any kind of moisture): the stars are fed by f.s from the earth and sea, stellae terrenis marinisque h. aluntur, Cic. N. D. 2, 16, 43: milky f. (i. e. milk), lacteus h., Ov.: the Massic f. of Bacchus (i. e. wine), Massicus h. Bacchi, Hor. 2. lĭquor: v. liquid. 3. lătex, ĭcis, m. (poet.): I am transformed into a f., in latices mutor, Ov. Met. 5, 636: the f. of the vine-begotten liquor, liquoris vitigeni latex, Lucr. 5, 14: the Palladian f., i. e., olive-oil, Palladii latices, Ov. Met. 8, 275.
FLUID Copy link • FLUIDliquor (as substance, whose parts separate by themselves): humor (moistness, opposed to dryness; Vid: Cels., 4, 2, No. 4, extr.; Tac., Ann., 13, 57, 5): aqua (water, as the most common of fluids). ☞ latex is poetical only.