English
fluviation
Fluviation comes from Latin fluviātiō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluviātiō
- Englishearliest quotation 1683fluviation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluviātiō
- Englishearliest quotation 1683fluviation
Earliest quotation: 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts: “This was the first preparation of Flax, and before…”
Formed from fluviated + -ion
Every English word from Latin fluviātiō
Today it means
noun Deposition of silt etc. by the action of a river or stream.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fluviātiō / fluviation