I would like to know if there is a verb for confluence. I have looked through most of the established dictionaries as well as on the internet.
If there is no verb (and possibly no adjective, too), would you verbify the noun to to confluence as Americans tend to do with many nouns?
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There isn't a direct verb equivalent, but there's a very similar option. Confluence comes from Latin origins meaning "flow together." There's no verb like "to conflue." But there is converge, which comes from Latin for "turn/bend/lean together." The modern meanings of confluence and convergence are near identical—both meaning multiple things coming together—so converge can serve as a stand-in for the missing "conflue!"
(Oh, and adjectives—yes, there is converging, which is good because confluing is just confusing!)