Last name meaning Ferris: This is an Anglicization of the Old Gaelic name O' Fearghusa - a compound of the Gaelic O (meaning grandson or male descendant) and the personal name Fergus, composed of the elements fear - a man and gus - vigour or force...
At other times, a confluence can be the location where two smaller streams or rivers merge to become the source for a new river. This is the case in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the Monongahela River and Allegheny River merge to create the Ohio River.
1 (specialist) the place where two rivers flow together and become one the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile; 2 (formal) the fact of two or more things becoming one a confluence of social factors; Word Origin late Middle English: from late Latin confluentia, from Latin confluere âflow togetherâ, from con-âtogetherâ + fluere âto flowâ. See confluence in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary