alluvio

== Latin == === Alternative forms === adluviō === Etymology === From alluō (“wash against, bathe”) +‎ -iō, from ad (“to, towards, at”) + luō (“wash”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [alˈlʊ.wi.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [alˈluː.vi.o] === Noun === alluviō f (genitive alluviōnis); third declension The act of washing upon or overflowing, inundation, flood. (law) An addition made to land by deposition of silt or soil by water, alluvion. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== (inundation): cataclysmos, dīluviēs, ēluviēs, ēluviō, inundātiō, prōluviēs ==== Related terms ==== alluō alluviēs alluvius ==== Descendants ==== === References === “alluvio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "alluvio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “alluvio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “alluvio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin