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Meaning of 'Fluctus' in English | Latin to English

Last Updated: June 12, 2026

Level: A2 Elementary

Meaning of 'Fluctus' in English | Latin to English

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Fluctus alti sunt. Hodie fluctus alti sunt. Aliquando fluctus altiores sunt quam naves. Quos ego... sed motos præstat componere fluctus. / Post mihi non simili pœna commissa luetis. Hi summo in fluctu pendent, his unda dehiscens / terram inter fluctus aperit; furit æstus arenis.

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Fluctus alti sunt. Hodie fluctus alti sunt. Aliquando fluctus altiores sunt quam naves.

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                    [00:00] Fluctus alti sunt.                

                    [00:01] Hodie fluctus alti sunt.                

                    [00:02] Aliquando fluctus altiores sunt quam naves.                

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Fluctus alti sunt.

The waves are high.

🔄 Synonyms & Alternatives: Depending on regional dialects, you might hear variations of Hodie fluctus alti sunt..

Hodie fluctus alti sunt.

The waves are high today.

Aliquando fluctus altiores sunt quam naves.

Sometimes the waves are higher than the ships.

🔄 Synonyms & Alternatives: Depending on regional dialects, you might hear variations of Unam, quæ Lycios fidumque vehebat Oronten, / ipsius ante oculos ingens a vertice pontus / in puppim ferit: excutitur pronusque magister / volvitur in caput, ast illam ter fluctus ibidem / torquet agens circum et rapidus vorat æquore vortex..

Quos ego... sed motos præstat componere fluctus. / Post mihi non simili pœna commissa luetis.

Beware... / Yet first 'twere best these billows to allay. / Far other coin hereafter ye shall pay / for crimes like these.

Hi summo in fluctu pendent, his unda dehiscens / terram inter fluctus aperit; furit æstus arenis.

These, horsed astride / a surge's crest, rock pendent o'er the deep; / to those the wave's huge hollow, yawning wide, / lays bare the ground below; dark swells the sandy tide.

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Pectora quorum inter fluctus arrecta jubæque / sanguinæ superant undas, pars cetera pontum / ponet legit sinuatque immensa volumine terga.

Their breasts erect they rear amid the deep, / their blood-red crests above the surface shine, / their hinder parts along the waters sweep, / trailed in huge coils and many a tortuous twine.

Incubuere mari, totumque a sedibus imis / una Eurusque Notusque ruunt creberque procellis / Africus, et vastos volvunt ad litora fluctus. / Insequitur clamorque virum stridorque rudentum.

They press down upon the sea and stir it up from the lowest depths, East and South and Southwest winds as one, thick with tempests, they roll the vast waves to the shores. There follows the shouting of men and the shrieking of ropes.

Incubuere mari, totumque a sedibus imis / una Eurusque Notusque ruunt creberque procellis / Africus, et vastos volvunt ad litora fluctus. / Insequitur clamorque virum stridorque rudentum.

East, West and squally South-west, with a roar, / swoop down on Ocean, and the surf and sand / mix in dark eddies, and the watery floor / heave from its depths, and roll huge billows to the shore. / Then come the creak of cables and the cries / of seamen.

Dextrum Scylla latus, lævum implacata Charybdis / obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos / sorbet in abruptum fluctus, rursusque sub auras / erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda.

Here Scylla, leftward sits Charybdis fell, / who, yawning thrice, her lowest depths laid bare, / sucks the vast billows in her throat's dark hell, / then starward spouts the refluent surge in air.

> Corpus Extract [Node 966]: Incubuere mari, totumque a sedibus imis / una Eurusque Notusque ruunt creberque procellis / Africus, et vastos volvunt ad litora fluctus. / Insequitur clamorque virum stridorque rudentum. detected in formal dataset.

Aeneas eos spectat. “O fortunati,” inquit, “quorum iam moenia surgunt; nos semper per fluctus erramus.” Tandem de colle descendit urbemque intrat. In media urbe templum magnum uidet; accedit et intrat.

Aeneas watches them. “Happy are those,” he said, “whose walls are already being raised, while we ride the waves.” Finally he comes down from the hill and enters the city. In the middle of the city, he sees a large temple; he goes there and enters.

Ad quem tum Juno supplex his vocibus usa est: / "Aeole – namque tibi divum pater atque hominum rex / et mulcere dedit fluctus et tollere vento –, / gens inimica mihi Tyrrhenum navigat æquor, / Ilium in Italiam portans victosque Penates."

Juno then, as a suppliant, addressed him in these words: "Aeolus (for the father of the gods has granted you authority to calm the seas and to stir them up with the winds), a race hateful to me is sailing upon the Tyrrhenian sea, carrying Troy along with its conquered gods to Italy."

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Him now Saturnia sought, and thus in lowly strain: / "O AEolus, for Jove, of human kind / and Gods the sovran Sire, hath given to thee / to lull the waves and lift them with the wind, / a hateful people, enemies to me, / their ships are steering o'er the Tuscan sea, / bearing their Troy and vanquished gods away / to Italy."

Unam, quæ Lycios fidumque vehebat Oronten, / ipsius ante oculos ingens a vertice pontus / in puppim ferit: excutitur pronusque magister / volvitur in caput, ast illam ter fluctus ibidem / torquet agens circum et rapidus vorat æquore vortex.

One, that bore / the brave Orontes and his Lycian crew, / full in AEneas' sight a toppling wave o'erthrew. / Dashed from the tiller, down the pilot rolled. / Thrice round the billow whirled her, as she lay, / then whelmed below.

☀️ Tone Match: The phrase Incubuere mari, totumque a sedibus imis / una Eurusque Notusque ruunt creberque procellis / Africus, et vastos volvunt ad litora fluctus. / Insequitur clamorque virum stridorque rudentum. generally carries a positive, uplifting connotation.

☀️ Tone Match: The phrase Unam, quæ Lycios fidumque vehebat Oronten, / ipsius ante oculos ingens a vertice pontus / in puppim ferit: excutitur pronusque magister / volvitur in caput, ast illam ter fluctus ibidem / torquet agens circum et rapidus vorat æquore vortex. generally carries a positive, uplifting connotation.

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Prefix/Suffix analysis indicates a standard derivation path for Dextrum Scylla latus, lævum implacata Charybdis / obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos / sorbet in abruptum fluctus, rursusque sub auras / erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda..

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How do you say "The waves are high." in English?

The most natural translation is "Fluctus alti sunt.".

How do you say "The waves are high today." in English?

The most natural translation is "Hodie fluctus alti sunt.".

How do you say "Sometimes the waves are higher than the ships." in English?

The most natural translation is "Aliquando fluctus altiores sunt quam naves.".

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