sediment

See also: Sediment and sédiment

English

Etymology

From Middle French sédiment, from Latin sedimentum < sedeō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛd.ɪ.mənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛdɪmənt

Noun

sediment (countable and uncountable, plural sediments)

1. A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.

   The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.

Hyponyms

• dregs
• grounds
• grout
• settlings

Related terms

• sedimentary
• sedimentation
• sedimentaceous
• sedimentitious
• sedimentoclastic

Translations

collection of small particles

• Afrikaans: afsaksel, dregs
• Armenian: մրուր (hy) (mrur)
• Bulgarian: ута́йка (bg) (utájka)
• Catalan: sediment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沉積物／沉积物 (zh) (chénjīwù), 沉積／沉积 (zh) (chénjī)

• Czech: usazenina f
• Esperanto: feĉo
• Finnish: sedimentti (fi), kerrostuma (fi)
• French: sédiment (fr) m
• Galician: sedimento (gl) m
• Georgian: დანალექი (danaleki), ნალექი (naleki)
• German: Sediment (de) n, Satz (de) m, Bodensatz (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: τρύξ f sg (trúx)

• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: botnfall (is) n, syrja f, botnlag n, dreggjar n, set (is) n, vatnborin jarðvegsefni n pl, vindborin jarðvegsefni n pl
• Irish: dríodar m
• Italian: deposito (it), sedimento (it) m
• Japanese: 堆積物 (ja) (たいせきぶつ, taisekibutsu)
• Khmer: ដីល្បាប់ (dəylbap)
• Latin: faex f, sedimen n
• Macedonian: талог m (talog)
• Maori: waipara, parakiwai (from a flood)
• Mongolian: тунадас (mn) (tunadas)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sediment n

  Nynorsk: sediment n

• Ottoman Turkish: تلوه (telve)
• Polish: osad (pl) m
• Portuguese: sedimento (pt) m
• Russian: отложе́ние (ru) n (otložénije), оса́док (ru) m (osádok), отсто́й (ru) m (otstój)
• Serbo-Croatian: талог m, talog (sh) m
• Spanish: sedimento (es) m
• Tagalog: tining (tl)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: trầm tích (vi)
• Welsh: gwaddod m, dyddodion m pl

Verb

sediment (third-person singular simple present sediments, present participle sedimenting, simple past and past participle sedimented)

1. (transitive) To deposit material as a sediment.
2. (intransitive) To be deposited as a sediment.

Translations

to deposit material as a sediment

• Bulgarian: утаявам (bg) (utajavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沉澱／沉淀 (zh) (chéndiàn)

• Esperanto: sedimentigi
• Finnish: sedimentoida
• French: sédimenter (fr)
• Mongolian: тунаах (tunaax)
• Russian: осажда́ть (ru) (osaždátʹ)
• Spanish: sedimentar (es)

to be deposited as a sediment

• Bulgarian: утаявам се (utajavam se)
• Dutch: sedimenteren (nl)
• Esperanto: sedimentiĝi
• Finnish: sedimentoitua
• French: sédimenter (fr)
• Mongolian: тунах (mn) (tunax)
• Russian: осажда́ться (ru) (osaždátʹsja)
• Spanish: sedimentar (es)

Anagrams

• Edmisten, end items, end times, endtimes, enmisted, midteens, set mined, setmined, tidesmen

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sedimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [sə.ðiˈmen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [sə.ðiˈment]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [se.ðiˈment]

Noun

sediment m (plural sediments)

1. sediment

Related terms

• sedimentar
• sedimentari

Further reading

• “sediment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sediment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sediment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sediment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Noun

sediment m inan

1. sediment

   Synonym: usazenina

Declension

Declension of sediment (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	sediment	sedimenty
genitive	sedimentu	sedimentů
dative	sedimentu	sedimentům
accusative	sediment	sedimenty
vocative	sedimente	sedimenty
locative	sedimentu	sedimentech
instrumental	sedimentem	sedimenty

Related terms

• See sese

Further reading

• sediment in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• sediment in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sédiment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌseː.diˈmɛnt/
• Hyphenation: se‧di‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

sediment n (plural sedimenten)

1. sediment

Derived terms

• sedimentaanvoer
• sedimentafzetting
• sedimentgesteente

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin sedimentum.

Noun

sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment or sedimenter, definite plural sedimenta or sedimentene)

1. sediment

Related terms

• sedimentær

References

• “sediment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin sedimentum.

Noun

sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment, definite plural sedimenta)

1. sediment

Related terms

• sedimentær

References

• “sediment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sediment, from Latin sedimentum.

Noun

sediment n (plural sedimente)

1. sediment

Declension

Declension of sediment

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sediment	sedimentul	(niște) sedimente	sedimentele
genitive/dative	(unui) sediment	sedimentului	(unor) sedimente	sedimentelor
vocative	sedimentule		sedimentelor

Related terms

• sedimenta
• sedimentar

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sedǐment/
• Hyphenation: se‧di‧ment

Noun

sedìment m (Cyrillic spelling седѝмент)

1. sediment

Declension

Declension of sediment

	singular	plural
nominative	sedìment	sedimenti
genitive	sedimenta	sedimenāta / sedimēntā
dative	sedimentu	sedimentima
accusative	sediment	sedimente
vocative	sedimente	sedimenti
locative	sedimentu	sedimentima
instrumental	sedimentom	sedimentima