diluvium
English
Etymology
From Latin dīluvium (“flood”), from lavō (“I wash”). Doublet of deluge.
Noun
diluvium (plural diluviums or diluvia)
- An inundation or flood; a deluge.
- (geology) A deposit of sand, gravel, etc. made by oceanic flooding.
Related terms
- antediluvian
References
- Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 126
French
Etymology
From Latin diluvium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.ly.vjɔm/
Noun
diluvium m (plural diluviums)
- (geology, obsolete) diluvium
- Synonym: diluvion
Further reading
- “diluvium”, in [[w:Trésor de la langue française informatisé|Trésor de la langue française informatisé]] [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin dīluvium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diˈlu.vjum/
- Rhymes: -uvjum
- Hyphenation: di‧lù‧vium
Noun
diluvium m (uncountable)
- (geology) diluvium
- Synonym: (rare) diluvio
- (geology) Synonym of pleistocene
Further reading
- diluvium in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- diluvium in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Latin
Etymology
From dīluō (“I wash away”) + -ium, from dis- + lavō (“I wash”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /diːˈlu.u̯i.um/, [d̪iːˈɫ̪uː̯iʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /diˈlu.vi.um/, [d̪iˈluːvium]
Noun
dīluvium n (genitive dīluviī or dīluvī); second declension
- a flood
Declension
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
- Catalan: diluvi
- → English: diluvium
- Old French: deluge
- French: déluge
- → Middle English: deluge
- English: deluge
- Galician: dioivo
- → Galician: diluvio
- → Old Irish: díliu
- Irish: díle
- → Italian: diluvio, → Italian: diluvium
- Occitan: deluvi, diluvi
- Piedmontese: diluvi
- → Portuguese: dilúvio
- Sicilian: sdilluviu
- → Spanish: diluvio
- → Welsh: dilyw
References
- “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