diluvium
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin dīluvium (“flood”), from lavō (“I wash”). Doublet of deluge.
Noun
[edit]diluvium (plural diluviums or diluvia)
- An inundation or flood; a deluge.
- (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]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]diluvium m (plural diluviums)
Further reading
[edit]- “diluvium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin dīluvium.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]diluvium m (uncountable)
- (geology) diluvium
- Synonym: (rare) diluvio
- (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]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /diːˈlu.u̯i.um/, [d̪iːˈɫ̪uː̯iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /diˈlu.vi.um/, [d̪iˈluːvium]
Noun
[edit]dīluvium n (genitive dīluviī or dīluvī); second declension
- a flood
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
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]- → Catalan: diluvi
- → English: diluvium
- Old French: deluge
- Galician: dioivo
- → Galician: diluvio
- → Old Irish: díliu
- Irish: díle
- → Italian: diluvio, → Italian: diluvium
- → Romanian: diluviu
- Occitan: deluvi, diluvi
- Piedmontese: diluvi
- → Portuguese: dilúvio
- → Proto-Brythonic: *dilüw
- Welsh: dilyw
- Sicilian: sdilluviu
- → Spanish: diluvio
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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