Noun: colluviarium
| Singular | colluviarium |
| Plural | colluviaria |
Sample Sentences
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All such expressions can never be elevated into lasting dignity, however closely they may be associated with the genius of a Swift or a Butler (just as low-life may be associated with the genius of Hogarth); nay, though they may have the high sanction of parliamentary authority; and certainly, though not omnipotent, it can produce very extraordinary effects upon the verbal currency of the kingdom; so that instead of the Parliament being that colluviarium of corruption, it is evidently a fountain of influence as well as of political power. [1824, Rev. James Gilchrist, The Etymologic Interpreter; Or, an Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language. To which is Prefixed an Introduction, Etc, page 68:]
Nouns inflected like colluviarium
meroplasmodium,
paleostriatum,
urodeum,
siphonium,
cladodium,
apogalacticum,
surrogatum,
siglum,
accubitum,
endoplasmic reticulum,
microsclerotium,
xystum,
archipterygium,
pleiochasium,
tripudium,
endosporium,
xenium,
separatum,
viscidium,
zoœcium, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From New Latin colluviarium, from Latin colluviēs (“filth, dregs”) + -arium. See: Latin Nouns '
colluviēs'.