abluvium

Latin

Etymology

From abluō (“wash off, cleanse”) +‎ -ium, from ab (“from, away from”) + luō (“wash, cleanse”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /abˈlu.u̯i.um/, [äbˈɫ̪uː̯iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈlu.vi.um/, [äbˈluːvium]

Noun

abluvium n (genitive abluviī or abluvī); second declension

1. flood, deluge, inundation

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	abluvium	abluvia
genitive	abluviī abluvī1	abluviōrum
dative	abluviō	abluviīs
accusative	abluvium	abluvia
ablative	abluviō	abluviīs
vocative	abluvium	abluvia

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

Related terms

• abluō
• ablūtiō
• ablūtor
• ablūtus

References

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