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deluge (n.)
late 14c., from O.Fr.
deluge
(12c.), earlier
deluve,
from L.
diluvium
, from
diluere
"wash away," from
dis-
"away" +
-luere,
comb. form of
lavere
"to wash" (see
lave
). The verb is from 1649.
