1147. The words into which the meanings come down are also flowing. Words with many consonants are not allowed because these retard the stream, as certain consonants do. For example, right now I am not permitted to write flumen, but fluvium. 1So in other cases.
Footnotes:
1. This refers to the word fluvium, translated "stream," in the previous sentence. Both fluvius and flumen mean "river" or "stream."
1147. The words also into which the meaning falls are flowing; in these words they do not admit many consonants, because they retard the flow, as certain consonants do. Accordingly, I am not now allowed to write flumen, but fluvium, 1and so in other cases.
Footnotes:
1. Both these Latin words mean a river or stream.
1147. Voces quoque, in quas labuntur sensa, sunt fluentes, in quibus plures consonantes non admittuntur, quia fluvium remorantur, sicut etiam quaedam consonantes; prout nunc non licet flumen scribere, sed fluvium, et sic in caeteris.