diluuio
Old Spanish
Alternative forms
- diluuyo
Etymology
From Latin dīluvium, from dīluō (“I wash away”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [diˈlu.βjo]
Noun
diluuio m (plural diluuios)
- deluge
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 37r.
- Qvando entro noe en el archa auẏe. dc. annos e fue el diluuio de las aguas abrieron ſe todas las fótanas del abiſmo ¬ fueron abiertas las fẏnieſtras de los cielos e plouio ſobre la tŕa. xL. dias ¬. xL. noches.
- When Noah entered the ark he was six hundred years old. And the deluge of the waters took place. All the fountains of the deep were opened and so too the windows of the heavens. And it rained upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 37r.
Descendants
- Spanish: diluvio