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diluvium

noun

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dīluvium (“flood”), from lavō (“to wash”). Doublet of deluge.

  1. learned borrowing from dīluvium

Definitions

  1. An inundation or flood

    An inundation or flood; a deluge.

  2. A deposit of sand, gravel, etc. made by oceanic flooding.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for diluvium. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA