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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of polluō (“pollute, defile; violate, dishonor”).
Participle
pollūtus (feminine pollūta, neuter pollūtum); first/second-declension participle
- Soiled, defiled, polluted, stained, fouled; having been soiled, defiled, polluted, stained or fouled.
- Contaminated, violated, dishonored, desecrated, polluted; having been violated, dishonored, desecrated or polluted; corrupt, depraved; no longer virgin, unchaste.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “pollutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers