adluvio

allŭvĭo ( adl- ), ōnis, f. [id.].

I.

In gen., a washing upon, an overflowing, an inundation:

adluvione paulatim terra consumitur,

Vulg. Job, 14, 19:

terra aquarum saepe adluvionibus mersa,

App. Mund. p. 67, 41.—

II.

In the jurists, an accession of land gradually washed to the shore by the flowing of water, alluvial land:

quod per adluvionem agro nostro flumen adjecit, jure gentium nobis adquiritur,

Dig. 41, 1, 7; 19, 1, 13 —Hence, jura adluvionum et circumluvio num, Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 173; cf. Dig. 41, 1, 12.