defluvium

Latin

Etymology

From dēfluō (“to flow down, run down”) +‎ -ium (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈflu.u̯i.um/, [d̪eːˈfɫ̪uː̯iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈflu.vi.um/, [d̪eˈfluːvium]

Noun

dēfluvium n (genitive dēfluviī or dēfluvī); second declension

1. A flowing or falling off or down

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	dēfluvium	dēfluvia
genitive	dēfluviī dēfluvī1	dēfluviōrum
dative	dēfluviō	dēfluviīs
accusative	dēfluvium	dēfluvia
ablative	dēfluviō	dēfluviīs
vocative	dēfluvium	dēfluvia

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

References

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