alluvium

From Latin alluvio (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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alluvium (plural alluviums or alluvia)

1. soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain

   Synonyms: alluvion, alluvial deposit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /alˈlu.u̯i.um/, [älˈlʲuː̯iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /alˈlu.vi.um/, [älˈluːvium]

alluvium

1. inflection of alluvius:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

• alluvium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)