alluvio

• adluviō

From alluō (“wash against, bathe”), from ad (“to, towards, at”) + luō (“wash”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /alˈlu.wi.oː/

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.

Third declension.

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

• alluō
• alluviēs
• alluvius

• 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)
• 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