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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pollūtus, perfect passive participle of polluō (“to soil, pollute”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /polˈlu.to/
- Rhymes: -uto
- Hyphenation: pol‧lù‧to
Adjective
polluto (feminine polluta, masculine plural polluti, feminine plural pollute) (literary)
- soiled, polluted, defiled
- Synonyms: contaminato, inquinato, insozzato, sporco
- Antonyms: netto, pulito
- (figurative) violated, desecrated
- Synonyms: profanato, violato
- Antonyms: intonso, inviolato, puro
Further reading
- polluto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Participle
pollūtō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of pollūtus