Translation
river, stream; current
Examples
fluit.
The river flows broadly across the plains.
Trans transiit.
The army crossed the river.
sedebamus.
We were sitting on the bank of the river.
Amnes currunt.
All rivers run to the sea.
transierunt.
They crossed the river by boat.
Amnis, amnis, m., third declension i-stem: genitive plural amnium, ablative amne or the older amni.
Latin has three ordinary words for a river and they differ in register rather than in size. Flumen is the neutral prose word, fluvius sits a little above it, and amnis is the poetic one, usually implying something large and fast-moving. Vergil uses it constantly, Caesar hardly touches it, and that distribution is worth remembering when you are choosing a word for composition. It left no descendants in the Romance languages, which all rebuilt from elsewhere: French riviere from riparia, "the bank country", Spanish rio from rivus. English kept only the technical amniotic, which is unrelated, and nothing else.
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