abluvium

Latin

Etymology

From abluō (“wash off, cleanse”) +‎ -ium, from ab (“from, away from”) + luō (“wash, cleanse”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /abˈlu.u̯i.um/, [äbˈɫ̪uː̯iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈlu.vi.um/, [äbˈluːvium]

Noun

abluvium n (genitive abluviī or abluvī); second declension

1. flood, deluge, inundation

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abluvium	abluvia
Genitive	abluviī abluvī1	abluviōrum
Dative	abluviō	abluviīs
Accusative	abluvium	abluvia
Ablative	abluviō	abluviīs
Vocative	abluvium	abluvia

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

Related terms

• abluō
• ablūtiō
• ablūtor
• ablūtus

References

• “abluvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abluvium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.