different between antediluvian vs diluvium

English

Etymology

From ante- (“before”) +? Latin d?luvium (“flood”) +? -an; in reference to the story of Noah’s Ark (Genesis 6–9), an early episode in the Bible.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ant?d??lu?v??n/

Adjective

antediluvian (comparative more antediluvian, superlative most antediluvian)

1. Ancient or antiquated.

   Synonyms: antediluvial, old, prehistoric; see also Thesaurus:old

2. Extremely dated.

   Synonyms: dated, old-fashioned; see also Thesaurus:obsolete
3. Pertaining or belonging to the time period prior to a great or destructive flood or deluge.

   Synonym: preflood

4. (biblical) Pertaining or belonging to the time prior to Noah's Flood.

   Synonym: antediluvial

   Coordinate term: prelapsarian

Translations

Noun

antediluvian (plural antediluvians)

1. One who lived prior to Noah's Flood.

Related terms

• deluge
• diluvial

Further reading

• antediluvian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “antediluvian”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Romanian

Etymology

From French antédiluvien

Noun

antediluvian n (plural antediluvieni)

1. antediluvian

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin d?luvium (“flood”), from lav? (“I wash”). Doublet of deluge.

Noun

diluvium (plural diluviums or diluvia)

1. An inundation or flood; a deluge.
2. (geology) A deposit of sand, gravel, etc. made by oceanic flooding.

Related terms

• antediluvian

References

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 126

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ly.vj?m/

Noun

diluvium m (plural diluviums)

1. (geology, obsolete) diluvium

Synonyms

• diluvion

Italian

Etymology

From Latin d?luvium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?lu.vjum/
• Hyphenation: di?lù?vium

Noun

diluvium m (uncountable)

1. (geology) diluvium

   Synonym: (rare) diluvio

2. (geology) Synonym of pleistocene

References

• diluvium in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• diluvium in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti

Latin

Etymology

From d?lu? (“I wash away”), from dis- +? lav? (“I wash”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /di??lu.u?i.um/, [d?i?????u?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di?lu.vi.um/, [d?i?lu?vium]

Noun

d?luvium n (genitive d?luvi? or d?luv?); second declension

1. a flood

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References

• diluvium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• diluvium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers