diluviumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

diluvium (複数形 diluviums または diluvia)

1. An inundation or flood; a deluge.
2. (geology) A deposit of sand, gravel, etc. made by oceanic flooding.

関連する語

• antediluvian

参照

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 126

Latin

語源

From dīluō (“I wash away”) +‎ -ium, from dis- +‎ lavō (“I wash”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /diːˈlu.u̯i.um/, [d̪iːˈɫ̪uː̯iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈlu.vi.um/, [d̪iˈluːvium]

名詞

dīluvium n (genitive dīluviī または dīluvī); second declension

1. a flood

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

派生した語

参照

• “diluvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “diluvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers