diluvio
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diluvio
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diluvio (plural diluvii)
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diluvio m (plural diluvi)
- deluge, downpour
- 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro primo [First Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle][1], published 1991, section 2:
- E acciò che Dio non gli potesse più nuocere per diluvio d’acqua, come avea fatto alla prima etade, sì ordinò di fare la maravigliosa opera della torre di Babel.
- And, so that God could not bring him harm with a deluge of water anymore, as he did in the first age, so he ordered the wonderful work of the Tower of Babel be made.
- (uncommon) flood
- (geology) Synonym of diluvium
- (hunting) a large net used to capture birds
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- diluvio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /diːˈlu.u̯i.oː/, [d̪iːˈɫ̪uː̯ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /diˈlu.vi.o/, [d̪iˈluːvio]
Etymology 1 edit
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dīluviō f (genitive dīluviōnis); third declension
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Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | dīluviō | dīluviōnēs |
Genitive | dīluviōnis | dīluviōnum |
Dative | dīluviōnī | dīluviōnibus |
Accusative | dīluviōnem | dīluviōnēs |
Ablative | dīluviōne | dīluviōnibus |
Vocative | dīluviō | dīluviōnēs |
Etymology 2 edit
From dīluvium (“flood”) + -ō.
Verb edit
dīluviō (present infinitive dīluviāre, perfect active dīluviāvī, supine dīluviātum); first conjugation
- to inundate, deluge
- Titus Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura 5.387:
- minantur / omnia diluviare ex alto gurgite ponti
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- Italian: diluviare
Etymology 3 edit
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dīluviō
References edit
- “diluvio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “diluvies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- diluvio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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diluvio m (plural diluvios)
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- “diluvio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014