aluvium

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin alluvium (“matter deposited by flowing water”), neuter of alluvius (“deposited by a river”), from Latin alluviō (“washing upon, overflowing”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /aluˈvium/ [a.luˈfi.ʊm]
  • Rhymes: -um
  • Syllabification: a‧lu‧vi‧um

Noun

aluvium (uncountable)

  1. (geology) alluvium

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.