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Yes. The word effluvium is a Scrabble US word. The word effluvium is worth 20 points in Scrabble:

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9-letter words (1 found)

EFFLUVIUM,

7-letter words (1 found)

ELUVIUM,

6-letter words (2 found)

FUMULI,MUFFLE,

5-letter words (6 found)

FILUM,FLUME,ILEUM,MULIE,MVULE,VELUM,

4-letter words (27 found)

EVIL,FIEF,FIFE,FILE,FILM,FIVE,FLIM,FLUE,FUEL,FUME,LIEF,LIEU,LIFE,LIME,LIVE,LUFF,MEFF,MIFF,MILE,MILF,MUFF,MUIL,MULE,VEIL,VIFF,VILE,VLEI,

3-letter words (27 found)

EFF,ELF,ELM,EMU,FEM,FEU,FIE,FIL,FLU,FUM,IFF,LEI,LEU,LEV,LIE,LUM,LUV,MEL,MEU,MIL,ULE,ULU,UME,UMU,VIE,VIM,VUM,

2-letter words (11 found)

EF,EL,EM,FE,FU,IF,LI,ME,MI,MU,UM,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 76 words from effluvium according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of effluvium

effluvium

Etymology

From Latin effluvium (“an outlet”), from effluō (“flow out or away”), from ex (“out of, from”) + fluō (“flow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈfluːvi.əm/
  • Rhymes: -uːviəm
  • Hyphenation: ef‧flu‧vi‧um

Noun

effluvium (countable and uncountable, plural effluvia or effluviums)

  1. A gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one.
  2. A condition causing the shedding of hair.

Derived terms

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From effluō (“flow out or away”) +‎ -ium, from ex (“out of, from”) + fluō (“flow”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /efˈflu.u̯i.um/, [ɛfˈfɫ̪uː̯iʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /efˈflu.vi.um/, [efˈfluːvium]

Noun

effluvium n (genitive effluviī or effluvī); second declension

  1. The act of flowing out; discharge of liquid, outlet, efflux.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

  • (act of flowing out): effluus

Related terms

  • effluēscō
  • effluō
  • effluus

Descendants

References

  • “effluvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “effluvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • effluvium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin effluvium. First attested in 1734.

Noun

effluvium c

  1. (obsolete) An emanating fume, especially if detrimental to health.

References

  • effluvium in Nordisk familjebok (1st ed., 1881)

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