alluo Latin · revision 8541

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Cicero|origins=la lavō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈal.lu.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈal.lu.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''alluō''' (present infinitive alluere, perfect active alluī); third conjugation, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''adluō''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ad-]] and ⟨-luō⟩, the combining form of [[lavō]] “to wash”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Cicero, of waters washing a shore.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant of rivers and the sea to flow past, wash, lap, as in Cicero, and of water to touch or wet something.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short suggest it was perhaps not used before the Augustan period.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Ulpian it meant to deposit by sedimentation.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Medieval Latin ''alluvium'', from its adjective ''alluvius'' “washed against”, gave [[en|alluvium]] in the 1660s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of deposits.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To flow past, [[m|en|wash]], lap.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To deposit (by sediment).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[alluuies]]

+ * [[alluviō]]

+ * [[alluvius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lavō]]

+ * [[abluō]]

+ * [[dīluō]]

+ * [[en|alluvium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}