# sediment
## English
### Etymology

From Middle French sédiment, from Latin sedimentum < sedeō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛd.ɪ.mənt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛdɪmənt

### Noun

sediment (countable and uncountable, plural sediments)
* 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

#### Derived terms

* biosediment
* cosediment
* hemipelagic sediment
* metasediment
* palaeosediment
* paleosediment
* pedosediment
* resediment
* sedimentable
* sedimental
* sedimentize
* sedimentology
* sedimentous
* subsediment

#### Related terms

* sedimentary
* sedimentation
* sedimentaceous
* sedimentitious
* sedimentoclastic

#### Translations
### Verb

sediment (third-person singular simple present sediments, present participle sedimenting, simple past and past participle sedimented)
* (transitive) To deposit material as a sediment.
* (intransitive) To be deposited as a sediment.

#### Derived terms

* resediment

#### Translations
### Anagrams

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

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sedimentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [sə.ðiˈmen]
* IPA: (Balearic) [sə.ðiˈment]
* IPA: (Valencia) [se.ðiˈment]

### Noun

sediment m (plural sediments)
* 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, 2025
* “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
* sediment
    Synonym: usazenina

#### Related terms

* See sese

### Further reading

* “sediment”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “sediment”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sédiment.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌseː.diˈmɛnt/
* Hyphenation: se‧di‧ment
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

sediment n (plural sedimenten)
* sediment

#### Derived terms

* sedimentaanvoer
* sedimentafzetting
* sedimentgesteente

### Further reading

* “sediment” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin sedimentum.

### Noun

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

#### Related terms

* sedimentær

### References

* “sediment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Occitan
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

sediment m (plural sediments)
* sediment

#### Related terms

* sedimentacion
* sedimentari

#### Further reading

* Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 632.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French sediment, from Latin sedimentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /se.diˈment/

### Noun

sediment n (plural sedimente)
* sediment

#### Related terms

* sedimenta
* sedimentar

### Further reading

* sediment in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sedǐment/
* Hyphenation: se‧di‧ment

### Noun

sedìment m (Cyrillic spelling седѝмент)
* sediment