The corpus record — Latin

abluvium

inundation

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Where it lives

Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

1. abluvium — de Vaan

abluvium 'inundation' (Lab.+), delubrum 'temple, shrine' (P1.+), diluere 'to dissolve, dilute' (P1.+), diluvies 'flood' (Lucr.), diluviare 'to flood' (Lucr.), eluere 'to wash out, laxus wash clean' (P1.+), eluacrum 'wash-tub' (Cato), elUtriare 'to put into a vat or bath' (Lab,+), eluvies 'the washing away' (Lucil.+), illo/utus 'unwashed, dirty' (P1.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. abluvium, p. 344]

2. ablŭvĭum — Lewis & Short

ablŭvĭum, i, n.abluo, = diluvium,

I a flood or deluge, Laber. ap. Gell. 16, 7, 1 (Com. Rel. p. 300, n. 17 Rib.), Front. p. 69 Goes.; cf. Isid. in Magi Auct. vi. p. 503.

In the wild

abluvium Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.7.2

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. abluvium (scan pp. 344-345; entry #883).

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