alluvium

alluvium

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Noun

alluvium (plural alluviums or alluvia)

1. soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain

   Synonyms: alluvion, alluvial deposit

Translations

deposited material

Arabic: طَمْي‎ m (ṭamy), إِبْلِيز‎ m (ʾiblīz) Armenian: բերուկ (hy) (beruk) Bulgarian: нано́с (bg) m (nanós) Catalan: al·luvió m Cherokee: ᏩᎵᏃᎯᏯᏍᎬ (walinohiyasgv) Chinese: Mandarin: 沖積層／冲积层 (zh) (chōngjīcéng) Czech: naplavenina f Dutch: alluvium (nl) n Esperanto: aluvio Estonian: jõesete, uhtsete Finnish: alluviumi, alluuvi French: alluvion (fr) f German: Alluvium (de) n, Alluvialboden n, Anschwemmungsboden m Hindi: जलोढ़क ? (jaloṛhak) Hungarian: hordalék (hu) Irish: tuiltreach f Japanese: 沖積層 (ちゅうせきそう, chūsekisō) Korean: 충적층(沖積層) (chungjeokcheung) Macedonian: на́нос m (nános) Malayalam: സൈകതം (ml) (saikataṃ), മണൽതിട്ട (maṇaltiṭṭa) Maori: parahua, kotae, kotau Persian: آبرفت‎ (fa) (âbroft) Polish: aluwium (pl) n (usually in the plural) Portuguese: aluvião (pt) m or f, alúvio m Russian: аллю́вий (ru) m (alljúvij), нано́с (ru) m (nanós) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: а̀лӯвиј m, а̀лӯвија f Roman: àlūvij (sh) m, àlūvija (sh) f Spanish: aluvión (es) m Swedish: alluvialavlagring c, alluvium (sv) n Tamil: ஆற்றுவண்டல் (āṟṟuvaṇṭal) Vietnamese: bồi tích, trầm tích phù sa, trầm tích sông

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /alˈlu.u̯i.um/, [älˈlʲuː̯iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /alˈlu.vi.um/, [älˈluːvium]

Adjective

alluvium

1. inflection of alluvius:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• alluvium 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)