alluvium

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin alluvium (“matter deposited by flowing water”), neuter of alluvius (“deposited by a river”), from Latin alluviō (“washing upon, overflowing”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

alluvium (plural alluviums or alluvia)

1. soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain

   Synonyms: alluvion, alluvial deposit

Coordinate terms

• colluvium

 

Related terms

• alluvial

 

Translations

deposited material

• Arabic: طَمْي m (ṭamy), إِبْلِيز m (ʔiblīz)
• Armenian: բերուկ (hy) (beruk)
• Bulgarian: нано́с (bg) m (nanós)
• Catalan: al·luvió m
• Cherokee: ᏩᎵᏃᎯᏯᏍᎬ (walinohiyasgv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沖積層／冲积层 (zh) (chōngjīcéng)

• Czech: naplavenina f
• Dutch: alluvium (nl) n
• Esperanto: aluvio
• Estonian: jõesete, uhtsete
• Finnish: alluviumi, alluuvi
• French: alluvion (fr) f
• German: Alluvium (de) n, Alluvialboden n, Anschwemmungsboden m, Anschwemmung f, Schwemmland (de) n, Schwemmlandboden m
• Hindi: जलोढ़क ? (jaloṛhak)
• Hungarian: hordalék (hu)
• Irish: tuiltreach f, glár m
• Japanese: 沖積層 (ja) (ちゅうせきそう, chūsekisō)
• Korean: 충적층(沖積層) (chungjeokcheung)
• Macedonian: на́нос m (nános)
• Malayalam: സൈകതം (ml) (saikataṁ), മണൽതിട്ട (maṇaltiṭṭa)
• Maori: parahua, kotae, kotau
• Persian: آبرفت (fa) (âbroft)
• Polish: aluwium (pl) n (usually in the plural)
• Portuguese: aluvião (pt) m or f, alúvio m
• Russian: аллю́вий (ru) m (alljúvij), нано́с (ru) m (nanós)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀лӯвиј m, а̀лӯвија f

  Roman: àlūvij (sh) m, àlūvija (sh) f

• Spanish: aluvión (es) m
• Swedish: alluvialavlagring c, alluvium (sv) n
• Tamil: ஆற்றுவண்டல் (āṟṟuvaṇṭal)
• Vietnamese: bồi tích, trầm tích phù sa, trầm tích sông
• Welsh: llifwaddod m

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /alˈlu.u̯i.um/, [älˈlʲuː̯iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /alˈlu.vi.um/, [älˈluːvium]

Adjective

alluvium

1. inflection of alluvius:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• alluvium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)