defluvium

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Latin

Etymology

From dēfluō (“to flow down, run down”) +‎ -ium (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈflu.u̯i.um/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈflu.vi.um/,

Noun

dēfluvium n (genitive dēfluviī or dēfluvī); second declension

A flowing or falling off or down

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	dēfluvium	dēfluvia
genitive	dēfluviī dēfluvī¹	dēfluviōrum
dative	dēfluviō	dēfluviīs
accusative	dēfluvium	dēfluvia
ablative	dēfluviō	dēfluviīs
vocative	dēfluvium	dēfluvia

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

References

“defluvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
defluvium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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