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sedimentum

sedimentum

Latin

Noun

sedimentum n ‎(genitive sedimentī); second declension

A settling, sinking down, subsidence

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	sedimentum	sedimenta
genitive	sedimentī	sedimentōrum
dative	sedimentō	sedimentīs
accusative	sedimentum	sedimenta
ablative	sedimentō	sedimentīs
vocative	sedimentum	sedimenta

Descendants

English : sediment
Finnish: sedimentti
French: sédiment
Galician: sedimento

German: Sediment
Italian: sedimento
Portuguese: sedimento
Spanish: sedimento

References

sedimentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sedimentum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.