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Affluent

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means having a great deal of wealth or material resources
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Stage 1 of 2
affluere
Latin · ancient
"to flow toward, to abound"
to flow toward, to abound, from ad- (toward) and fluere (to flow)
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Stage 2 of 2
affluent
English · 1400s
"having a great deal of wealth"
settled as the English word for having a great abundance of wealth
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