diluvio

See also: diluvió and dilúvio

Catalan

Verb

diluvio

1. first-person singular present indicative of diluviar

Ido

Noun

diluvio (plural diluvii)

1. deluge, flood

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dīluvium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈlu.vjo/
• Rhymes: -uvjo
• Hyphenation: di‧lù‧vio

Noun

diluvio m (plural diluvi)

1. deluge, downpour
   • 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro primo [First Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle]‎^[1], published 1991, section 2:

     E acciò che Dio non gli potesse più nuocere per diluvio d’acqua, come avea fatto alla prima etade, sì ordinò di fare la maravigliosa opera della torre di Babel.

     And, so that God could not bring him harm with a deluge of water anymore, as he did in the first age, so he ordered the wonderful work of the Tower of Babel be made.

2. (uncommon) flood
3. (geology) synonym of diluvium
4. (hunting) a large net used to capture birds

Derived terms

• diluviale
• diluviano
• diluviare
• diluvio universale
• postdiluviano

Related terms

• antidiluviano
• diluviare
• diluviatore
• diluvium
• postdiluviale

See also

• acquazzone
• alluvione

Further reading

• diluvio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• diluivo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diːˈɫʊ.wi.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [diˈluː.vi.o]

Etymology 1

From dīluō +‎ -iō.

Noun

dīluviō f (genitive dīluviōnis); third declension

1. flood, deluge, inundation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dīluviō	dīluviōnēs
genitive	dīluviōnis	dīluviōnum
dative	dīluviōnī	dīluviōnibus
accusative	dīluviōnem	dīluviōnēs
ablative	dīluviōne	dīluviōnibus
vocative	dīluviō	dīluviōnēs

Etymology 2

From dīluvium (“flood”) +‎ -ō.

Verb

dīluviō (present infinitive dīluviāre, perfect active dīluviāvī, supine dīluviātum); first conjugation

1. to inundate, deluge
   • Titus Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura 5.387:

     minantur / omnia diluviare ex alto gurgite ponti

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

   Conjugation of dīluviō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	dīluviō		dīluviās		dīluviat		dīluviāmus		dīluviātis		dīluviant
	imperfect	dīluviābam		dīluviābās		dīluviābat		dīluviābāmus		dīluviābātis		dīluviābant
	future	dīluviābō		dīluviābis		dīluviābit		dīluviābimus		dīluviābitis		dīluviābunt
	perfect	dīluviāvī		dīluviāvistī		dīluviāvit		dīluviāvimus		dīluviāvistis		dīluviāvērunt, dīluviāvēre
	pluperfect	dīluviāveram		dīluviāverās		dīluviāverat		dīluviāverāmus		dīluviāverātis		dīluviāverant
	future perfect	dīluviāverō		dīluviāveris		dīluviāverit		dīluviāverimus		dīluviāveritis		dīluviāverint
passive	present	dīluvior		dīluviāris, dīluviāre		dīluviātur		dīluviāmur		dīluviāminī		dīluviantur
	imperfect	dīluviābar		dīluviābāris, dīluviābāre		dīluviābātur		dīluviābāmur		dīluviābāminī		dīluviābantur
	future	dīluviābor		dīluviāberis, dīluviābere		dīluviābitur		dīluviābimur		dīluviābiminī		dīluviābuntur
	perfect	dīluviātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	dīluviātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	dīluviātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	dīluviem		dīluviēs		dīluviet		dīluviēmus		dīluviētis		dīluvient
	imperfect	dīluviārem		dīluviārēs		dīluviāret		dīluviārēmus		dīluviārētis		dīluviārent
	perfect	dīluviāverim		dīluviāverīs		dīluviāverit		dīluviāverīmus		dīluviāverītis		dīluviāverint
	pluperfect	dīluviāvissem		dīluviāvissēs		dīluviāvisset		dīluviāvissēmus		dīluviāvissētis		dīluviāvissent
passive	present	dīluvier		dīluviēris, dīluviēre		dīluviētur		dīluviēmur		dīluviēminī		dīluvientur
	imperfect	dīluviārer		dīluviārēris, dīluviārēre		dīluviārētur		dīluviārēmur		dīluviārēminī		dīluviārentur
	perfect	dīluviātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	dīluviātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		dīluviā		—		—		dīluviāte		—
	future	—		dīluviātō		dīluviātō		—		dīluviātōte		dīluviantō
passive	present	—		dīluviāre		—		—		dīluviāminī		—
	future	—		dīluviātor		dīluviātor		—		—		dīluviantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		dīluviāre			dīluviārī			dīluviāns			—
future		dīluviātūrum esse			dīluviātum īrī			dīluviātūrus			dīluviandus
perfect		dīluviāvisse			dīluviātum esse			—			dīluviātus
future perfect		—			dīluviātum fore			—			—
perfect potential		dīluviātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		dīluviandī		dīluviandō		dīluviandum		dīluviandō		dīluviātum		dīluviātū

Descendants

• Catalan: diluviar
• Italian: diluviare
• Portuguese: diluviar
• Spanish: diluviar

Etymology 3

Noun

dīluviō

1. dative/ablative singular of dīluvium

References

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

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• deluveo, deluvio, deluvyo, diluvyo

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dīluvium.

Noun

diluvio m (plural diluvios)

1. deluge

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Descendants

• Galician: diluvio
• Portuguese: dilúvio

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “diluvio”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “dilúvio”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “d@lu@@o”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• diluujo, diluuyo

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dīluvium.

Noun

diluvio m (plural diluvios)

1. deluge
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Estoria de España, Kingdom of Castile, page 3r, column 1:

     […] aduxo dios el grand diluuio ſobꝛe la tierra con q̃ los mato a todos

     God brought the great deluge over the earth, killing all of them.

   • 13th century, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, page 36va:

     Aſuſo sobꝛe anthyochia cõtra / oꝛient ſon los mõtes de armenya es aradat o arribo el archa de noe en q̃ eſcapo al diluuyo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• Spanish: diluvio

References

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “DILUIR”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[2] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, pages 496–497

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-

Proto-Italic *dis-

Latin dis-

Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃-der.

Proto-Italic *lawō

Latin lavō

Latin dīluō

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ium

Latin dīluviumlbor.

Old Spanish diluvio

Spanish diluvio

Inherited from Old Spanish diluvio, from Latin dīluvium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈlubjo/ [d̪iˈlu.β̞jo]
• Rhymes: -ubjo
• Syllabification: di‧lu‧vio

Noun

diluvio m (plural diluvios)

1. deluge, downpour

   Synonym: aguacero

Derived terms

• arca del diluvio
• diluviano

Related terms

• diluviar

Further reading

• “diluvio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025