diluvium
French, noun/di.ly.vjɔm/
diluvium is spelled D-I-L-U-V-I-U-M (8 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written French, the 255,834th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diluvium is a French masculine noun meaning “diluvium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Matière des alluvions antérieures aux temps historiques”.
What does diluvium mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineobsoletediluvium
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Matière des alluvions antérieures aux temps historiques.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of diluvium
- diluviums plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce diluvium?
- /di.ly.vjɔm/
- \di.ly.vjɔm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is diluvium in French?
diluvium appears about once in every 66 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).