diluvium

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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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