sediment

See also: Sediment and sédiment

English

Etymology

From Middle French sédiment, from Latin sedimentum < sedeō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛd.ɪ.mənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛdɪmənt

Noun

sediment (countable and uncountable, plural sediments)

1. A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.

   The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.

Hyponyms

• dregs
• grounds
• grout
• settlings

Derived terms

• biosediment
• cosediment
• hemipelagic sediment
• metasediment
• palaeosediment
• paleosediment
• pedosediment
• resediment
• sedimentable
• sedimental
• sedimentize
• sedimentology
• sedimentous
• subsediment

Related terms

• sedimentary
• sedimentation
• sedimentaceous
• sedimentitious
• sedimentoclastic

Translations

collection of small particles

• Afrikaans: afsaksel, dregs
• Arabic: رَاسِب m (rāsib)
• Armenian: մրուր (hy) (mrur)
• Bulgarian: ута́йка (bg) (utájka)
• Catalan: sediment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沉積物 / 沉积物 (zh) (chénjīwù), 沉積 / 沉积 (zh) (chénjī)

• Czech: usazenina f
• Esperanto: feĉo
• Finnish: sedimentti (fi), kerrostuma (fi)
• French: sédiment (fr) m
• Galician: sedimento (gl) m
• Georgian: დანალექი (danaleki), ნალექი (naleki)
• German: Sediment (de) n, Satz (de) m, Bodensatz (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: τρύξ f sg (trúx)

• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: botnfall (is) n, syrja f, botnlag n, dreggjar n, set (is) n, vatnborin jarðvegsefni n pl, vindborin jarðvegsefni n pl
• Indonesian: sedimen (id)
• Irish: dríodar m
• Italian: deposito (it), sedimento (it) m
• Japanese: 堆積物 (ja) (たいせきぶつ, taisekibutsu)
• Khmer: ដីល្បាប់ (dəylbap)
• Latin: faex f, sedimen n
• Macedonian: талог m (talog)
• Maori: waipara, parakiwai (from a flood)
• Mongolian: тунадас (mn) (tunadas)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sediment n

  Nynorsk: sediment n

• Ottoman Turkish: تلوه (telve)
• Polish: osad (pl) m
• Portuguese: sedimento (pt) m
• Russian: отложе́ние (ru) n (otložénije), оса́док (ru) m (osádok), отсто́й (ru) m (otstój)
• Serbo-Croatian: талог m, talog (sh) m
• Spanish: sedimento (es) m
• Tagalog: tining (tl)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: trầm tích (vi)
• Welsh: gwaddod m, dyddodion m pl

Verb

sediment (third-person singular simple present sediments, present participle sedimenting, simple past and past participle sedimented)

1. (transitive) To deposit material as a sediment.
2. (intransitive) To be deposited as a sediment.

Derived terms

• resediment

Translations

to deposit material as a sediment

• Bulgarian: утаявам (bg) (utajavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沉澱 / 沉淀 (zh) (chéndiàn)

• Esperanto: sedimentigi
• Finnish: sedimentoida
• French: sédimenter (fr)
• Mongolian: тунаах (tunaax)
• Russian: осажда́ть (ru) (osaždátʹ)
• Spanish: sedimentar (es)

to be deposited as a sediment

• Bulgarian: утаявам се (utajavam se)
• Dutch: sedimenteren (nl)
• Esperanto: sedimentiĝi
• Finnish: sedimentoitua
• French: sédimenter (fr)
• Mongolian: тунах (mn) (tunax)
• Russian: осажда́ться (ru) (osaždátʹsja)
• Spanish: sedimentar (es)

Anagrams

• Edmisten, end items, end times, endtimes, enmisted, midteens, set mined, setmined, tidesmen

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sedimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [sə.ðiˈmen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [sə.ðiˈment]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [se.ðiˈment]

Noun

sediment m (plural sediments)

1. sediment

Related terms

• sedimentar
• sedimentari

Further reading

• “sediment”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “sediment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “sediment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sediment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Noun

sediment m inan

1. sediment

   Synonym: usazenina

Declension

Declension of sediment (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	sediment	sedimenty
genitive	sedimentu	sedimentů
dative	sedimentu	sedimentům
accusative	sediment	sedimenty
vocative	sedimente	sedimenty
locative	sedimentu	sedimentech
instrumental	sedimentem	sedimenty

Related terms

• See sese

Further reading

• “sediment”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sediment”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sédiment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌseː.diˈmɛnt/
• Hyphenation: se‧di‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

sediment n (plural sedimenten)

1. sediment

Derived terms

• sedimentaanvoer
• sedimentafzetting
• sedimentgesteente

Further reading

• “sediment” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin sedimentum.

Noun

sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment or sedimenter, definite plural sedimenta or sedimentene)

1. sediment

Related terms

• sedimentær

References

• “sediment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin sedimentum.

Noun

sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment, definite plural sedimenta)

1. sediment

Related terms

• sedimentær

References

• “sediment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

sediment m (plural sediments)

1. sediment

Related terms

• sedimentacion
• sedimentari

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 632.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sediment, from Latin sedimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.diˈment/

Noun

sediment n (plural sedimente)

1. sediment

Declension

Declension of sediment

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sediment	sedimentul		sedimente	sedimentele
genitive-dative	sediment	sedimentului		sedimente	sedimentelor
vocative	sedimentule			sedimentelor

Related terms

• sedimenta
• sedimentar

Further reading

• “sediment”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sedǐment/
• Hyphenation: se‧di‧ment

Noun

sedìment m (Cyrillic spelling седѝмент)

1. sediment

Declension

Declension of sediment

	singular	plural
nominative	sedìment	sedimenti
genitive	sedimenta	sedimenāta / sedimēntā
dative	sedimentu	sedimentima
accusative	sediment	sedimente
vocative	sedimente	sedimenti
locative	sedimentu	sedimentima
instrumental	sedimentom	sedimentima