abluvium

== Latin == === Etymology === From abluō (“wash off, cleanse”) +‎ -ium, from ab (“from, away from”) + luō (“wash, cleanse”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [abˈɫʊ.wi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [abˈluː.vi.um] === Noun === abluvium n (genitive abluviī or abluvī); second declension flood, deluge, inundation ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== abluō ablūtiō ablūtor ablūtus === References === “abluvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “abluvium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.