abluvium

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [abˈɫʊ.wi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [abˈluː.vi.um]

abluvium n (genitive abluviī or abluvī); second declension

1. flood, deluge, inundation

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• abluō
• ablūtiō
• ablūtor
• ablūtus

• “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.