Latin

Alternative forms

• adluviō

Noun

alluviō f ‎(genitive alluviōnis); third declension

1. The act of washing upon or overflowing, inundation, flood.
2. (law) An addition made to land by deposition of silt or soil by water, alluvion.

Inflection

Third declension.

Synonyms

• (inundation): cataclysmos, dīluviēs, ēluviēs, ēluviō, inundātiō, prōluviēs

Related terms

• alluō
• alluviēs
• alluvius

Descendants

• English: alluvion
• French: alluvion
• Italian: alluvione
• Portuguese: aluvião
• Romanian: aluviune
• Russian: аллю́вий m ‎(alljúvij)
• Spanish: aluvión

References

• alluvio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ALLUVIO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “alluvio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• alluvio in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin