diluvio

diluvio

1. first-person singular present indicative of diluviar

diluvio (plural diluvii)

1. deluge, flood

Borrowed from Latin dīluvium.

• IPA^(key): /diˈlu.vjo/
• Rhymes: -uvjo
• Hyphenation: di‧lù‧vio

diluvio m (plural diluvi)

1. deluge, downpour
   • 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro primo [First Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle]‎^[1], published 1991, section 2:

     E acciò che Dio non gli potesse più nuocere per diluvio d’acqua, come avea fatto alla prima etade, sì ordinò di fare la maravigliosa opera della torre di Babel.

     And, so that God could not bring him harm with a deluge of water anymore, as he did in the first age, so he ordered the wonderful work of the Tower of Babel be made.

2. (uncommon) flood
3. (geology) synonym of diluvium
4. (hunting) a large net used to capture birds

• acquazzone
• alluvione

• diluvio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• diluivo

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diːˈɫʊ.wi.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪iˈluː.vi.o]

From dīluō +‎ -iō.

dīluviō f (genitive dīluviōnis); third declension

1. flood, deluge, inundation

Third-declension noun.

From dīluvium (“flood”) +‎ -ō.

dīluviō (present infinitive dīluviāre, perfect active dīluviāvī, supine dīluviātum); first conjugation

1. to inundate, deluge
   • Titus Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura 5.387:

     minantur / omnia diluviare ex alto gurgite ponti

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Italian: diluviare

dīluviō

1. dative/ablative singular of dīluvium

• “diluvio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “diluvies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• diluvio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Latin dīluvium.

• IPA^(key): /diˈlubjo/ [d̪iˈlu.β̞jo]
• Rhymes: -ubjo
• Syllabification: di‧lu‧vio

diluvio m (plural diluvios)

1. deluge, downpour

   Synonym: aguacero

• “diluvio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024