diluvio

diluvio

1. first-person singular present indicative of diluviar

diluvio (plural diluvii)

1. deluge, flood

Borrowed from Latin dīluvium.

• IPA^(key): /diˈlu.vjo/
• Rhymes: -uvjo
• Hyphenation: di‧lù‧vio

diluvio m (plural diluvi)

1. deluge, downpour
   • 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro primo [First Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle]‎^[1], published 1991, section 2:

     E acciò che Dio non gli potesse più nuocere per diluvio d’acqua, come avea fatto alla prima etade, sì ordinò di fare la maravigliosa opera della torre di Babel.

     And, so that God could not bring him harm with a deluge of water anymore, as he did in the first age, so he ordered the wonderful work of the Tower of Babel be made.

2. (uncommon) flood
3. (geology) synonym of diluvium
4. (hunting) a large net used to capture birds

• acquazzone
• alluvione

• diluvio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• diluivo

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diːˈɫʊ.wi.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [diˈluː.vi.o]

From dīluō +‎ -iō.

dīluviō f (genitive dīluviōnis); third declension

1. flood, deluge, inundation

Third-declension noun.

From dīluvium (“flood”) +‎ -ō.

dīluviō (present infinitive dīluviāre, perfect active dīluviāvī, supine dīluviātum); first conjugation

1. to inundate, deluge
   • Titus Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura 5.387:

     minantur / omnia diluviare ex alto gurgite ponti

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Catalan: diluviar
• Italian: diluviare
• Portuguese: diluviar
• Spanish: diluviar

dīluviō

1. dative/ablative singular of dīluvium

• “diluvio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “diluvies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “diluvio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• deluveo, deluvio, deluvyo, diluvyo

Learned borrowing from Latin dīluvium.

diluvio m (plural diluvios)

1. deluge

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

• Galician: diluvio
• Portuguese: dilúvio

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “diluvio”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “dilúvio”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “d@lu@@o”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• diluujo, diluuyo

Learned borrowing from Latin dīluvium.

diluvio m (plural diluvios)

1. deluge
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Estoria de España, Kingdom of Castile, page 3r, column 1:

     […] aduxo dios el grand diluuio ſobꝛe la tierra con q̃ los mato a todos

     God brought the great deluge over the earth, killing all of them.

   • 13th century, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, page 36va:

     Aſuſo sobꝛe anthyochia cõtra / oꝛient ſon los mõtes de armenya es aradat o arribo el archa de noe en q̃ eſcapo al diluuyo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Spanish: diluvio

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “DILUIR”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[2] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, pages 496–497

Inherited from Old Spanish diluvio, from Latin dīluvium.

• IPA^(key): /diˈlubjo/ [d̪iˈlu.β̞jo]
• Rhymes: -ubjo
• Syllabification: di‧lu‧vio

diluvio m (plural diluvios)

1. deluge, downpour

   Synonym: aguacero

• “diluvio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025