purgatio

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Latin

Etymology

pūrgō +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

Noun

pūrgātiō f (genitive pūrgātiōnis); third declension

  1. purification, cleansing, purging

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pūrgātiō pūrgātiōnēs
genitive pūrgātiōnis pūrgātiōnum
dative pūrgātiōnī pūrgātiōnibus
accusative pūrgātiōnem pūrgātiōnēs
ablative pūrgātiōne pūrgātiōnibus
vocative pūrgātiō pūrgātiōnēs

Descendants

  • English: purgation
  • Italian: purgazione
  • Middle Irish: purgóit

References

  • purgatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • purgatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • purgatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • purgatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.