proluvio

From prōluō (“wash out, wash away, flood”) +‎ -iō, from prō- + luō (“wash”).

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

prōluviō f (genitive prōluviōnis); third declension

1. inundation, flood

Third-declension noun.

• (inundation): cataclysmos, dīluviēs, ēluviēs, ēluviō, inundātiō, prōluviēs

• prōluō
• prōluviēs

• “proluvio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• proluvio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “proluvio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin