English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin alluvium (“matter deposited by flowing water”), neuter of alluvius (“deposited by a river”), from Latin alluviō (“washing upon, overflowing”).
Pronunciation
Noun
alluvium (plural alluviums or alluvia)
- 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
Coordinate terms
Translations
deposited material
- Arabic: طَمْي m (ṭamy), إِبْلِيز m (ʔiblīz)
- 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, Anschwemmung f, Schwemmland (de) n, Schwemmlandboden m
- Hindi: जलोढ़क ? (jaloṛhak)
- Hungarian: hordalék (hu)
- Indonesian: aluvium (id)
- Irish: tuiltreach f, glár m
- Japanese: 沖積層 (ja) (ちゅうせきそう, chūsekisō)
- Korean: 충적층(沖積層) (chungjeokcheung)
- Macedonian: на́нос m (nános)
- Malayalam: സൈകതം (ml) (saikataṁ), മണൽതിട്ട (maṇaltiṭṭa)
- Māori: parahua, kotae, kotau, kenepuru
- 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
- Latin: 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
- Welsh: llifwaddod m
|
Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
alluvium
- inflection of alluvius:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References