| 词汇 | deluge |
| 词源 | deluge [LME] This is from an Old French variant of diluve ‘flood’, from Latin diluvium (E19th as an English word), from diluere ‘wash away’, also the source of dilute [M16th]. The English word antediluvian [M17th] meaning literally ‘before the (biblical) Flood’ is also based on Latin diluvium. |
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