erosion

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹəʊʒən/
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• Canada, General-American: /ɪˈɹoʊʒən/
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• Canada, General-American: /əˈɹoʊʒən/
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• Australian: /ɪˈɹəʉʒən/
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• New-Zealand: /əˈɹɐʉʒən/
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• CMU ARPABET: IH0 R OW1 ZH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French erosion, from Latin ērōsiō (“eating away”), derived from ērōdō. The first known occurrence in English was in the 1541 translation by Robert Copland of Guy de Chauliac's medical text The Questyonary of Cyrurygens. Copland used erosion to describe how ulcers developed in the mouth. By 1774 erosion was used outside medical subjects. Oliver Goldsmith employed the term in the more contemporary geological context, in his book Natural History, with the quote : "Bounds are thus put to the erosion of the earth by water."

85 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: эро́зія (erózija) — the result of having being eroded
• Breton: krignerezh — the result of having being eroded
• Bulgarian: ерозия (erozija) — the result of having being eroded
• Catalan: erosió — the result of having being eroded
• Chinese Mandarin: 磨蝕 /磨蚀 (móshí) — the result of having being eroded
• Chinese Mandarin: 侵蝕 /侵蚀 (qīnshí) — the result of having being eroded
• Czech: eroze — the result of having being eroded
• Danish: erosion — the result of having being eroded
• Danish: afslidning — the result of having being eroded
• Dutch: erosie — the result of having being eroded
• Finnish: eroosio — the result of having being eroded
• French: érosion — the result of having being eroded
• Friulian: erosion — the result of having being eroded
• Georgian: ეროზია (erozia) — the result of having being eroded
• German: Erosion — the result of having being eroded
• Greek: αποσάθρωση (aposáthrosi) — the result of having being eroded
• Hungarian: erózió — the result of having being eroded
• Italian: erosione — the result of having being eroded
• Japanese: 浸食 (shinshoku) — the result of having being eroded
• Kapampangan: banlik — the result of having being eroded
• Kazakh: мүжілу (müjılu) — the result of having being eroded
• Korean: 부식 (busik) — the result of having being eroded
• Latvian: erozija — the result of having being eroded
• Macedonian: ерозија (erozija) — the result of having being eroded
• Norwegian Bokmål: erosjon — the result of having being eroded
• Norwegian Nynorsk: erosjon — the result of having being eroded
• Polish: erozja — the result of having being eroded
• Portuguese: erosão — the result of having being eroded
• Romanian: eroziune — the result of having being eroded
• Russian: эро́зия (erózija) — the result of having being eroded
• Serbo-Croatian: erozija — the result of having being eroded
• Serbo-Croatian: odron — the result of having being eroded
• Serbo-Croatian: odronjenje — the result of having being eroded
• Slovak: erózia — the result of having being eroded
• Spanish: erosión — the result of having being eroded
• Swedish: erosion — the result of having being eroded
• Tagalog: us-os — the result of having being eroded
• Ukrainian: еро́зія (erózija) — the result of having being eroded
• Vietnamese: xói mòn — the result of having being eroded
• Welsh: erydiad — the result of having being eroded
• Bulgarian: ерозия (erozija) — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Catalan: erosió — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Danish: erosion — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Esperanto: erozio — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Finnish: kuluminen — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Finnish: eroosio — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• French: érosion — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• German: Erosion — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Hungarian: erózió — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Irish: líomhadh — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Latvian: erozija — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Māori: ngāhorohoro — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Norwegian Bokmål: erosjon — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Norwegian Nynorsk: erosjon — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Polish: erozja — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Portuguese: erosão — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Romanian: eroziune — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Romanian: erodare — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Serbo-Croatian: erozija — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Spanish: erosión — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Tagalog: sapudpod — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Tagalog: pagkapudpod — the changing of a surface by mechanical action
• Bulgarian: разяждане (razjaždane) — destruction by abrasive action of fluids
• Catalan: erosió — destruction by abrasive action of fluids
• Danish: erosion — destruction by abrasive action of fluids
• Esperanto: erozio — destruction by abrasive action of fluids
• Finnish: eroosio — destruction by abrasive action of fluids
• Finnish: syöpyminen — destruction by abrasive action of fluids
• French: érosion — destruction by abrasive action of fluids
• German: Erosion — destruction by abrasive action of fluids
• Hungarian: erózió — destruction by abrasive action of fluids
• Norwegian Bokmål: erosjon — destruction by abrasive action of fluids
• Norwegian Nynorsk: erosjon — destruction by abrasive action of fluids
• Polish: erozja — destruction by abrasive action of fluids
• Portuguese: erosão — destruction by abrasive action of fluids
• Serbo-Croatian: erozija — destruction by abrasive action of fluids
• Spanish: erosión — destruction by abrasive action of fluids
• Danish: erosion — in dentistry
• Dutch: tanderosie — in dentistry
• German: Erosion — in dentistry
• Norwegian Bokmål: erosjon — in dentistry
• Norwegian Nynorsk: erosjon — in dentistry
• French: érosion — (medicine)
• Persian: اروزیون (eroziyon) — (medicine)
• Turkish: erozyon — (medicine)