2006-10-07 10:13:52 · 3 answers · asked by David A 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Even the mighty Perseus.tufts Classical search engine cannot find "silt" in Latin (though the Greeks had words for it).
The nearest single word which translates as "sediment","dregs",
"impurities" is; - Faex, faecis (f)
Otherwise you would need to describe it as "things deposited by a river" - deposita flumine
or "mud laid down (by a river)" - lutum depositum (flumine)
2006-10-08 03:31:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As far as is recorded, there's not specific word for either silt or siltstone. Siltstone was often considered to be the same as a sandstone, however, and that term would be "Lapis Bibulus."
2006-10-08 04:51:01 · answer #2 · answered by KdS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I can tell, there is no word for silt in Latin - these are the only references to sandstone that I was able to find:
lapis Albanus - peperino (see link)
lapis bibulus - sandstone (lit. drinking stone - it absorbs moisture)
lapis harenarius - sandstone (lit. sandy stone)
carbunculus - red toph-stone (a kind of sandstone)
2006-10-08 08:37:42 · answer #3 · answered by Jeannie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋