sediment
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Etymology edit
From Middle French sédiment, from Latin sedimentum < sedeō.
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Noun edit
sediment (countable and uncountable, plural sediments)
- A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
- The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.
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sediment (third-person singular simple present sediments, present participle sedimenting, simple past and past participle sedimented)
- (transitive) To deposit material as a sediment.
- (intransitive) To be deposited as a sediment.
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Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin sedimentum.
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- IPA(key): (Central) [sə.ðiˈmen]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [sə.ðiˈment]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [se.ðiˈment]
Noun edit
sediment m (plural sediments)
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Further reading edit
- “sediment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sediment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “sediment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sediment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech edit
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sediment m inan
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singular | plural | |
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nominative | sediment | sedimenty |
genitive | sedimentu | sedimentů |
dative | sedimentu | sedimentům |
accusative | sediment | sedimenty |
vocative | sedimente | sedimenty |
locative | sedimentu | sedimentech |
instrumental | sedimentem | sedimenty |
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- See sese
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Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French sédiment.
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sediment n (plural sedimenten)
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Latin sedimentum.
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sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment or sedimenter, definite plural sedimenta or sedimentene)
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- “sediment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Latin sedimentum.
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sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment, definite plural sedimenta)
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- “sediment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French sediment, from Latin sedimentum.
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sediment n (plural sedimente)
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singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) sediment | sedimentul | (niște) sedimente | sedimentele |
genitive/dative | (unui) sediment | sedimentului | (unor) sedimente | sedimentelor |
vocative | sedimentule | sedimentelor |
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Serbo-Croatian edit
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Noun edit
sedìment m (Cyrillic spelling седѝмент)
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singular | plural | |
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nominative | sedìment | sedimenti |
genitive | sedimenta | sedimenāta / sedimēntā |
dative | sedimentu | sedimentima |
accusative | sediment | sedimente |
vocative | sedimente | sedimenti |
locative | sedimentu | sedimentima |
instrumental | sedimentom | sedimentima |