profluvium
From LSJ
ὣς ὁ μὲν ἔνθ' ἀπόλωλεν, ἐπεὶ πίεν ἁλμυρὸν ὕδωρ → so there he perished, when he had drunk the salt water
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
prōflŭvĭum: ii, n. id.,
I In gen., a flowing forth, a flowing, flow (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): sanguinis, Lucr. 6, 1205: sanguinis per nares, Col. 6, 33, 2: narium, Plin. 32, 10, 42, § 124: urinae, id. 28, 6, 17, § 61.—
II In partic.
A Looseness, flux, diarrhœa: si corpus astrictum est, digerendum esse; si profluvio laborat, continendum, Cels. praef.—
B Monthly flux, menses, Plin. 7, 15, 13, § 64.—
C Genitale, flow, Plin. 7, 14, 12, § 61; also: geniturae, id. 22, 22, 40, § 83.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
prōflŭvĭum,¹⁴ ĭī, n. (profluo), écoulement, flux : Lucr. 6, 1205
