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diluvium

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin dīluvium (“flood”), from lavō (“I wash”). Doublet of deluge.

Noun edit

diluvium (plural diluviums or diluvia)

  1. An inundation or flood; a deluge.
  2. (geology) A deposit of sand, gravel, etc. made by oceanic flooding.

Related terms edit

References edit

  • Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 126

French edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin diluvium.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

diluvium m (plural diluviums)

  1. (geology, obsolete) diluvium
    Synonym: diluvion

Further reading edit

Italian edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from Latin dīluvium.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /diˈlu.vjum/
  • Rhymes: -uvjum
  • Hyphenation: di‧lù‧vium

Noun edit

diluvium m (uncountable)

  1. (geology) diluvium
    Synonym: (rare) diluvio
  2. (geology) Synonym of pleistocene

Further reading edit

  • diluvium in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • diluvium in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From dīluō (“I wash away”) +‎ -ium, from dis- +‎ lavō (“I wash”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

dīluvium n (genitive dīluviī or dīluvī); second declension

  1. a flood

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dīluvium dīluvia
Genitive dīluviī
dīluvī1 		dīluviōrum
Dative dīluviō dīluviīs
Accusative dīluvium dīluvia
Ablative dīluviō dīluviīs
Vocative dīluvium dīluvia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants edit

References edit

  • “diluvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “diluvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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