diluvium

Learned borrowing from Latin dīluvium (“flood”), from lavō (“to wash”). Doublet of deluge.

diluvium (plural diluviums or diluvia)

1. An inundation or flood; a deluge.
2. (geology) A deposit of sand, gravel, etc. made by oceanic flooding.

• antediluvian

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 126

Borrowed from Latin diluvium.

• IPA^(key): /di.ly.vjɔm/

diluvium m (plural diluviums)

1. (geology, obsolete) diluvium

   Synonym: diluvion

• “diluvium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Unadapted borrowing from Latin dīluvium.

• IPA^(key): /diˈlu.vjum/
• Rhymes: -uvjum
• Hyphenation: di‧lù‧vium

diluvium m (uncountable)

1. (geology) diluvium

   Synonym: (rare) diluvio

2. (geology) synonym of pleistocene

• diluvium in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• diluvium in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

From dīluō (“to wash away”) +‎ -ium, from dis- +‎ lavō (“to wash”).

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

dīluvium n (genitive dīluviī or dīluvī); second declension

1. a flood

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “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