confluvium

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin cōnfluvium. First attested in 1670. === Pronunciation === enPR: kŏn′flo͞o′vē-əm (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkɒnˈfluː.viː.əm/ (General American) IPA(key): (without the cot–caught merger) /ˌkɔnˈflu.vi.əm/, (cot–caught merger) /ˌkɑnˈflu.vi.əm/ (Canada) IPA(key): (standard) /ˌkɒnˈflu.vi.əm/, (dialectal) /ˌkɑnˈflu.vi.əm/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌkɔnˈflʉː.viː.əm/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˌkɒnˈflʉː.viː.əm/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˌkɔnˈflʉ.vi.əm/, /ˌkɔnˈflʉ.vi.ʌm/ Rhymes: -uːviəm Hyphenation: con‧flu‧vi‧um === Noun === confluvium (plural confluvia or confluviums) Synonym of confluence (“convergence or combination”). For quotations using this term, see Citations:confluvium. === Further reading === “confluvium, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. == Latin == === Etymology === From cōnfluō + -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kõːˈfɫʊ.wi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koɱˈfluː.vi.um] Hyphenation: cōn‧flu‧vi‧um === Noun === cōnfluvium n (genitive cōnfluviī); second declension (very rare) confluence (convergence or combination) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== → English: confluvium (learned) === Further reading === “conflŭvĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press cōnfluvium in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1458 “confluvium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 388. Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “cōnfluvium”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎[1], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC Latino-Sinicum [translated as: 洗鍋水坑／洗锅水坑], in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011