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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Virgil|origins=ine-pro *louh₃-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [diːˈɫʊ.wi.ũː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [diˈluː.vi.um]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''dīluvium''' ''n'' (genitive dīluviī or dīluvī); second declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|dīluō|-ium|t1=to wash away]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) ''Dīluō'' is from [[dis-]] and the stem of [[lavo|alt=lavō]] “to wash”, which de Vaan says is contained in the compounds in [[m|la|-luere]], ''lavō'' is from [[ine-pro|*louh₃-|t=to wash]].^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) A related form is [[diluvies|alt=dīluviēs]].^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's first source is Virgil (70–19 BC).^(Köbler 2010) Virgil uses it of a flood and figuratively of a catastrophe.^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant a flood or inundation.^(OLD 2012) Varro dates events from the time of the flood of Deucalion, and Pliny the Younger writes of frequent floods.^(Georges 1913) Figuratively it meant destruction or devastation, as in Virgil.^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Christian Latin it was the universal flood, Noah's flood.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Niermeyer 1976) Isidore says it is named because it destroys (''deleat'') all that it floods.^(Isidore) English ''deluge'' came from it through Old French in the late 14th century, and geologists borrowed ''diluvium'' in 1819.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro speaks of the time of Deucalion's flood.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of a flood and of devastation.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it in his Natural Questions.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''deluge'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ * 1819 – English ''diluvium'' is borrowed in geology.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A [[m|en|flood]], [[m|en|inundation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(figurative)'' Destruction, [[m|en|cataclysm]].^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # ''(Christian Latin)'' The Flood, the [[m|en|deluge]].^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[diluo]]
+ * [[en|deluge]]
+ * [[en|diluvium]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}