malluvium

Latin

Etymology

From manus (“hand”) +‎ luo (“wash”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

malluvium n (genitive malluviī or malluvī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a wash-handbasin

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	malluvium	malluvia
Genitive	malluviī malluvī1	malluviōrum
Dative	malluviō	malluviīs
Accusative	malluvium	malluvia
Ablative	malluviō	malluviīs
Vocative	malluvium	malluvia

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

References

• “malluvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• malluvium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• malluvium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.