alluvio

Latin

Alternative forms

• adluviō

Etymology

From alluō (“wash against, bathe”) +‎ -iō, from ad (“to, towards, at”) + luō (“wash”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /alˈlu.u̯i.oː/, [älˈlʲuː̯ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /alˈlu.vi.o/, [älˈluːvio]

Noun

alluviō f (genitive alluviōnis); third declension

1. The act of washing upon or overflowing, inundation, flood.
2. (law) An addition made to land by deposition of silt or soil by water, alluvion.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	alluviō	alluviōnēs
genitive	alluviōnis	alluviōnum
dative	alluviōnī	alluviōnibus
accusative	alluviōnem	alluviōnēs
ablative	alluviōne	alluviōnibus
vocative	alluviō	alluviōnēs

Synonyms

• (inundation): cataclysmos, dīluviēs, ēluviēs, ēluviō, inundātiō, prōluviēs

Related terms

• alluō
• alluviēs
• alluvius

Descendants

Descendants

• Catalan: al·luvió
• English: alluvion
• French: alluvion
• Italian: alluvione
• Portuguese: aluvião
• Romanian: aluviune
• Russian: аллю́вий (alljúvij)
• Spanish: aluvión

References

• “alluvio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• alluvio 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)
• alluvio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “alluvio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin