different between hotchpotch vs colluvies

English

Etymology

From French hochepot, from hocher (“to shake”) + pot (“pot”); of Dutch or German origin. Compare Dutch hutspot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?t??p?t??/

Noun

hotchpotch (plural hotchpotches)

1. Alternative form of hodgepodge (“miscellaneous collection”).
2. Alternative form of hodgepodge (“mixture of ingredients”).
3. (civil law) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, especially in the case of divorce or intestacy.

   Synonym: collation

4. (archaic) A kind of mutton broth with green peas instead of barley or rice.

Alternative forms

• hotchpot
• hotchpotz
• hotch-pot

Synonyms

• farrago, hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag
• See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge

Translations

References

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

English

Etymology

From Latin colluvies, from colluo (“to wash thoroughly, wash out, rinse”).

Noun

colluvies (plural colluvies)

1. effluvium
2. medley, hotchpotch

Anagrams

• collusive

Latin

Etymology

From collu? (“I wash out, rinse”) +? -i?s.

Noun

colluvi?s f (genitive colluvi??); fifth declension

1. filth
2. dregs, an impure mixture or medley

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Related terms

• colluvi?

References

• colluvies in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• colluvies in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• colluvies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette