alluvium

From Medieval Latin alluvium (“matter deposited by flowing water”), neuter of alluvius (“deposited by a river”), from Latin alluviō (“washing upon, overflowing”).

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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 Latin) IPA^(key): [alˈlʊ.wi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [alˈluː.vi.um]

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)