alluvionn.

Brit.

/əˈl(j)uːvɪən/, U.S.

/əˈluviən/

Forms: 1500s alluuione, 1500s alluuioun (Scottish), 1500s alluuyon, 1500s alluvioun (Scottish), 1500s–1600s alluuion, 1600s– alluvion.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French alluvion; Latin alluviōn-, alluviō.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French alluvion inundation, overflow (1527), matter gradually deposited by a river or by the sea (1636), (in legal context) addition made to a person's land by deposition of silt (1677 or earlier, frequently in droit d'alluvion ), matter deposited by a flood or inundation (1690), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin alluviōn-, alluviō flood, (in legal context) addition made to a person's land by deposition of silt < alluere (also adluere ) to flow past, wash, to wet, lap, to add by sedimentation, deposit ( < al- , variant of ad- ad- prefix + luere to wash: see pediluvium n.) + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Old Occitan alluvio (c1350), Spanish aluvión (c1442), Portuguese aluvião (1663 as †aluviam ), Italian alluvione (1342), all earliest in sense ‘inundation’. Compare alluvium n., and see the etymological note at alluvian adj.

†1. The wash or flow of the sea against the shore, or of a river on its banks; an instance of this. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun] > against land

alluvionc1540

c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Ciiij Ane gret tre was brocht be alluuion and flux of the see to land.

1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xix. 45 Slow Rivers, by insensible alluvions take in and let out the Waters that feed them.

1665 A. Marvell Poems in Wks. (1776) III. 288 Holland..the off-scouring of the British sand, Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell, Of ship-wreck'd cockle and the muscle-shell.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. iii. 96 The alluvion of the Sea upon those Rocks might not be eternally continued, but interpolated.

1793 South Downs 24 In gradual wane the muddy waves retreat; And macerated particles subside With each alluvion of the menstrual tide.

1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 321 The isle..has not been obliterated by alluvion.

†2. An inundation, an overflow; a flood, esp. one containing much matter in suspension. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun]

streamc950

water floodOE

floodc1000

waterOE

diluvya1325

waterganga1325

flowinga1340

delugec1374

diluvec1386

Noah's floodc1390

overflowing1430

inundation1432

flowa1450

surrounding1449

over-drowninga1500

spate1513

float1523

drowning1539

ravine1545

alluvion1550

surundacion1552

watershot1567

overflow1589

ravage1611

inunding1628

surroundera1642

water breach1669

flooding1799

debacle1802

diluviation1816

deluging1824

superflux1830

whelm1842

come1862

floodage1862

sheet-flood1897

flash flooding1939

flash-flood1940

1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War iii. xiii. f. xcii Of the whyche alluuyons [Fr. alluuions] and overflowynges the earthquakes (as I thynke) were the cause.

1604 J. Hayward Treat. Union Two Realmes xiv. 50 Euen as a field remaineth the same which looseth vpon one part by alluuion of waters, and winneth vpon the other.

a1729 B. Kennett tr. J. Barbeyrac in S. von Pufendorf Law of Nature & Nations (1729) iv. viii. 404 These Alluvions happen for the most part thro' the Negligence of the Proprietors, who take not sufficient Care to secure the Banks of the Rivers.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Great alterations are made..by alluvions of the sea.

1761 tr. Frederician Code II. iv. xii. 156 When..by an alluvion, a part of the dominant subject is carried away, or the lands happen to be diminished by the new channel formed in them, the part of the estate which subsists does not lose the right of servitude.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 349 A current of mud is produced..So late as the 27th of October, 1822, one of these alluvions descended the cone of Vesuvius.

3. Law. The formation of new land by the usually slow and imperceptible action of flowing water. Cf. avulsion n. 3.

ΚΠ

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. xii. 207 Appropriation by Alluvion, is admitted in all Nations, for thereby the adjection of others ground insensibly, and unperceivably by the running of a River, becomes a part of the ground to which it is adjected, because it is uncertain from whose Ground such small and unperceivable particles are carryed by the Water.

1717 J. Chamberlayne tr. Lives French, Ital. & German Philosophers 175 It is good to observe that the Plains thus made by Alluvion, are highest next the Sides of the Rivers that produce them, and always afterwards lower.

1751 D. Hume Justice in Ess. (1817) II. 483 The accessions which are made to land bordering upon rivers, follow the land, say the civilians, provided it be made by what they call alluvion, that is insensibly and imperceptibly.

1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (ed. 2) II. 261 Lands newly created..by the alluvion or dereliction of the sea.

1810 A. Gallatin Memorandum 14 July in T. Jefferson Papers (2005) Retirement Ser. II. 526 The right of alluvion is founded on the ground that as the riparian owner runs the risk of losing by the encroachments of the adjacent river, he is entitled to the chance of what may be gained by its deposits.

1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 95 That becomes ours which is brought to us by alluvion.

1900 Times 5 Mar. 14/1 He claimed a certain piece of land..and his theory was that this land had become his by alluvion.

1967 Appraisal Terminol. & Handbk. (Amer. Inst. Real Estate Appraisers) (ed. 5) 10 Alluvion, the addition made to land by the washing of the sea, a navigable river, or other streams, whenever the increase is so gradual that it cannot be perceived in any one moment of time.

2005 J. C. Chaturvedy Acad. Dict. Law & Legislation 29 The proprietor of the bank increased by alluvion is entitled to the addition.

4. An amount of matter deposited by a flood or flowing water; an alluvial deposit; (Law) an area of land formed in this way. Formerly also: †alluvium (obsolete).In quot. 1849 figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun]

siltc1440

warpingc1440

slitch?a1475

sleech1587

alluvium1665

sediment1685

sullage1691

warp1698

wash1707

washing1707

alluvion1731

silting1739

warp land1794

alluvial1818

siltage1876

flood-loam1880

putty1883

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun] > diluvium

alluvion1731

diluvium1819

drift1839

1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Alluvion, an accession or accretion along the sea-shore, or the banks of large rivers by tempests or inundations.

1736 S. Humphreys tr. N. A. Pluche Spectacle de la Nature III. xix. 59 He on the opposite Side of the River rejoices at his good Fortune, and thanks his lucky Stars for an Alluvion or Increase of Land that costs him neither Trouble nor Expence.

1780 T. A. Mann in Philos. Trans. 1779 (Royal Soc.) 69 602 The matters, so carried off, will be thrown against the opposite bank of the river..and produce a new ground, called an alluvion.

1809 Amer. Law Jrnl. 2 354 When an alluvion is once formed its future encrease belongs to the proprietor of the first alluvion.

1837 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xi. 57 A hardy race multiplied along the alluvion of the streams.

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. iii. 19 Spreading the deepest and richest alluvion over the surface of its meadows.

1849 F. Schoberl tr. V. Hugo Hunchback of Notre Dame 104 Every wave of time superinduces its alluvion.

1951 S. Afr. Archaeol. Bull. 6 123/1 Two alluvions can be discerned; the older carrying Clacto-Abbevillean forms, the second Upper Palaeolithic.

2005 Jrnl. Coastal Res. 21 96/1 Such groins..were constructed of small poles placed very close to one another with small size rubble stones, mostly covered by alluvions as time went by.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	alluvion
释义	alluvionn. Brit. /əˈl(j)uːvɪən/, U.S. /əˈluviən/ Forms: 1500s alluuione, 1500s alluuioun (Scottish), 1500s alluuyon, 1500s alluvioun (Scottish), 1500s–1600s alluuion, 1600s– alluvion. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French alluvion; Latin alluviōn-, alluviō. Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French alluvion inundation, overflow (1527), matter gradually deposited by a river or by the sea (1636), (in legal context) addition made to a person's land by deposition of silt (1677 or earlier, frequently in droit d'alluvion ), matter deposited by a flood or inundation (1690), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin alluviōn-, alluviō flood, (in legal context) addition made to a person's land by deposition of silt < alluere (also adluere ) to flow past, wash, to wet, lap, to add by sedimentation, deposit ( < al- , variant of ad- ad- prefix + luere to wash: see pediluvium n.) + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Old Occitan alluvio (c1350), Spanish aluvión (c1442), Portuguese aluvião (1663 as †aluviam ), Italian alluvione (1342), all earliest in sense ‘inundation’. Compare alluvium n., and see the etymological note at alluvian adj. †1. The wash or flow of the sea against the shore, or of a river on its banks; an instance of this. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun] > against land alluvionc1540 c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Ciiij Ane gret tre was brocht be alluuion and flux of the see to land. 1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xix. 45 Slow Rivers, by insensible alluvions take in and let out the Waters that feed them. 1665 A. Marvell Poems in Wks. (1776) III. 288 Holland..the off-scouring of the British sand, Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell, Of ship-wreck'd cockle and the muscle-shell. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. iii. 96 The alluvion of the Sea upon those Rocks might not be eternally continued, but interpolated. 1793 South Downs 24 In gradual wane the muddy waves retreat; And macerated particles subside With each alluvion of the menstrual tide. 1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 321 The isle..has not been obliterated by alluvion. †2. An inundation, an overflow; a flood, esp. one containing much matter in suspension. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun] streamc950 water floodOE floodc1000 waterOE diluvya1325 waterganga1325 flowinga1340 delugec1374 diluvec1386 Noah's floodc1390 overflowing1430 inundation1432 flowa1450 surrounding1449 over-drowninga1500 spate1513 float1523 drowning1539 ravine1545 alluvion1550 surundacion1552 watershot1567 overflow1589 ravage1611 inunding1628 surroundera1642 water breach1669 flooding1799 debacle1802 diluviation1816 deluging1824 superflux1830 whelm1842 come1862 floodage1862 sheet-flood1897 flash flooding1939 flash-flood1940 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War iii. xiii. f. xcii Of the whyche alluuyons [Fr. alluuions] and overflowynges the earthquakes (as I thynke) were the cause. 1604 J. Hayward Treat. Union Two Realmes xiv. 50 Euen as a field remaineth the same which looseth vpon one part by alluuion of waters, and winneth vpon the other. a1729 B. Kennett tr. J. Barbeyrac in S. von Pufendorf Law of Nature & Nations (1729) iv. viii. 404 These Alluvions happen for the most part thro' the Negligence of the Proprietors, who take not sufficient Care to secure the Banks of the Rivers. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Great alterations are made..by alluvions of the sea. 1761 tr. Frederician Code II. iv. xii. 156 When..by an alluvion, a part of the dominant subject is carried away, or the lands happen to be diminished by the new channel formed in them, the part of the estate which subsists does not lose the right of servitude. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 349 A current of mud is produced..So late as the 27th of October, 1822, one of these alluvions descended the cone of Vesuvius. 3. Law. The formation of new land by the usually slow and imperceptible action of flowing water. Cf. avulsion n. 3. ΚΠ 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. xii. 207 Appropriation by Alluvion, is admitted in all Nations, for thereby the adjection of others ground insensibly, and unperceivably by the running of a River, becomes a part of the ground to which it is adjected, because it is uncertain from whose Ground such small and unperceivable particles are carryed by the Water. 1717 J. Chamberlayne tr. Lives French, Ital. & German Philosophers 175 It is good to observe that the Plains thus made by Alluvion, are highest next the Sides of the Rivers that produce them, and always afterwards lower. 1751 D. Hume Justice in Ess. (1817) II. 483 The accessions which are made to land bordering upon rivers, follow the land, say the civilians, provided it be made by what they call alluvion, that is insensibly and imperceptibly. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (ed. 2) II. 261 Lands newly created..by the alluvion or dereliction of the sea. 1810 A. Gallatin Memorandum 14 July in T. Jefferson Papers (2005) Retirement Ser. II. 526 The right of alluvion is founded on the ground that as the riparian owner runs the risk of losing by the encroachments of the adjacent river, he is entitled to the chance of what may be gained by its deposits. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 95 That becomes ours which is brought to us by alluvion. 1900 Times 5 Mar. 14/1 He claimed a certain piece of land..and his theory was that this land had become his by alluvion. 1967 Appraisal Terminol. & Handbk. (Amer. Inst. Real Estate Appraisers) (ed. 5) 10 Alluvion, the addition made to land by the washing of the sea, a navigable river, or other streams, whenever the increase is so gradual that it cannot be perceived in any one moment of time. 2005 J. C. Chaturvedy Acad. Dict. Law & Legislation 29 The proprietor of the bank increased by alluvion is entitled to the addition. 4. An amount of matter deposited by a flood or flowing water; an alluvial deposit; (Law) an area of land formed in this way. Formerly also: †alluvium (obsolete).In quot. 1849 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun] siltc1440 warpingc1440 slitch?a1475 sleech1587 alluvium1665 sediment1685 sullage1691 warp1698 wash1707 washing1707 alluvion1731 silting1739 warp land1794 alluvial1818 siltage1876 flood-loam1880 putty1883 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun] > diluvium alluvion1731 diluvium1819 drift1839 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Alluvion, an accession or accretion along the sea-shore, or the banks of large rivers by tempests or inundations. 1736 S. Humphreys tr. N. A. Pluche Spectacle de la Nature III. xix. 59 He on the opposite Side of the River rejoices at his good Fortune, and thanks his lucky Stars for an Alluvion or Increase of Land that costs him neither Trouble nor Expence. 1780 T. A. Mann in Philos. Trans. 1779 (Royal Soc.) 69 602 The matters, so carried off, will be thrown against the opposite bank of the river..and produce a new ground, called an alluvion. 1809 Amer. Law Jrnl. 2 354 When an alluvion is once formed its future encrease belongs to the proprietor of the first alluvion. 1837 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xi. 57 A hardy race multiplied along the alluvion of the streams. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. iii. 19 Spreading the deepest and richest alluvion over the surface of its meadows. 1849 F. Schoberl tr. V. Hugo Hunchback of Notre Dame 104 Every wave of time superinduces its alluvion. 1951 S. Afr. Archaeol. Bull. 6 123/1 Two alluvions can be discerned; the older carrying Clacto-Abbevillean forms, the second Upper Palaeolithic. 2005 Jrnl. Coastal Res. 21 96/1 Such groins..were constructed of small poles placed very close to one another with small size rubble stones, mostly covered by alluvions as time went by. 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